Contrast the painting of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. What is the emotional impact on the viewer and how does it differ between the two painters? What was the difference in the artists' approaches?

What will be an ideal response?


Essay responses should include these points:
Jackson Pollock used Action Painting and worked with house paints and conventional oils.
Pollock produced graceful linear abstractions.
De Kooning insisted, "Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure."
De Kooning returned to figural representation in the 1950s but still remained in the Abstract Expressionist style with furious slashing brushstrokes.
De Kooning's work is more colorful with soft pastels; Pollock has a limited palette with browns, blacks, and tans.

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