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Bird - Jackson Pollock
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An early, semi-figurative work by Jackson Pollock, featuring mythic symbols and gestural brushwork from his formative period.
Painted around 1941, Bird represents a period in the career of Jackson Pollock when his work was heavily influenced by the imagery of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and the psychological theories of Carl Jung. During these years, Pollock moved away from the regionalist styles of his teacher, Thomas Hart Benton, and began to explore mythic and totemic subjects. The composition displays a central, circular form that suggests a creature or a symbolic entity, surrounded by abstracted, mask-like faces and a prominent, singular eye at the top of the frame.
The application of paint is thick and gestural, showing the early development of the physical energy that would later define his drip paintings. The palette is restricted to earthy tones, black, and sharp accents of red, which serve to unify the disparate, semi-figurative elements. The work lacks a traditional sense of space, instead presenting a compressed, frontal arrangement that forces the viewer to engage with the symbolic weight of the shapes.
This piece offers a view into the transition between Pollock's early figurative experiments and his eventual move toward total abstraction. It is a study in the use of primal symbols to convey psychological states. The presence of the eye, a recurring motif in his early work, suggests an interest in the act of seeing and the subconscious mind. By examining this painting, one can observe the artist grappling with the tension between representation and the raw, expressive power of the paint itself. It remains a clear example of the mid-century American shift toward a more subjective and internalised mode of artistic production.
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Bird - Jackson Pollock
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Jackson Pollock
Pollock grew up in Arizona and California, the youngest of five brothers. His father left when he was eight. Two of his brothers were already studying art, and he followed them to the Art Students League in New York at seventeen, where he worked under Thomas Hart Benton. Benton painted muscular American regionalist scenes: cowboys, farmhands, rolling landscapes. Pollock absorbed the energy and rejected the subject matter.
He drank heavily from his teens onwards. He was in and out of psychiatric treatment, tried Jungian analysis, and spent time working for the WPA Federal Art Project during the Depression. The early paintings are dark, tangled, influenced by Picasso and by the Mexican muralists Orozco and Siqueiros, whose experimental techniques (including pouring paint) Pollock encountered in a workshop.
The drip paintings started in 1947. He laid canvas on the floor of his barn in Springs, Long Island, and poured household enamel paint from tins, flicking and dripping it with sticks, trowels, and hardened brushes. He moved around the canvas, working from all four sides. No easel, no brushes touching surface, no predetermined composition. 'I am nature,' he told an interviewer, which sounds grandiose but describes the method accurately: the paintings record physical movement through space.
The drip period lasted roughly four years. By 1951 he had largely stopped, returning to figurative work that nobody wanted. His marriage to the painter Lee Krasner deteriorated alongside the drinking. He died in a car crash in 1956, at forty-four, drunk at the wheel. Krasner spent the next three decades managing his legacy and making her own paintings, which were excellent and consistently overlooked.
He drank heavily from his teens onwards. He was in and out of psychiatric treatment, tried Jungian analysis, and spent time working for the WPA Federal Art Project during the Depression. The early paintings are dark, tangled, influenced by Picasso and by the Mexican muralists Orozco and Siqueiros, whose experimental techniques (including pouring paint) Pollock encountered in a workshop.
The drip paintings started in 1947. He laid canvas on the floor of his barn in Springs, Long Island, and poured household enamel paint from tins, flicking and dripping it with sticks, trowels, and hardened brushes. He moved around the canvas, working from all four sides. No easel, no brushes touching surface, no predetermined composition. 'I am nature,' he told an interviewer, which sounds grandiose but describes the method accurately: the paintings record physical movement through space.
The drip period lasted roughly four years. By 1951 he had largely stopped, returning to figurative work that nobody wanted. His marriage to the painter Lee Krasner deteriorated alongside the drinking. He died in a car crash in 1956, at forty-four, drunk at the wheel. Krasner spent the next three decades managing his legacy and making her own paintings, which were excellent and consistently overlooked.
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