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.
You might also like to view...
Describe the setting of Giorgione's The Tempest, and explain why it was an important painting from the Venetian Renaissance
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is NOT true of disco?
a) Most songs are at approximately the same tempo b) It was imported from England c) It is based on a heavy, four-on-the-floor rhythm d) It was a “producer’s music
The shape of the Iatmul men's ceremonial house is meant to represent what?
A. Male ancestor B. Female ancestor C. Sea turtle D. Creation god
What type of short chant was sung before and after the psalm?
A) antiphon B) canticle C) doxology D) psalm tone