I chose to research Jackson Pollock's painting Number 18. Before researching him and his painting style, I thought of this painting as rather odd. At first glance it looks as if he did the painting in about twenty minutes. It looks like a bunch of scribbling on a piece of paper. I didnt quite understand the meaning of this painting and why he painted this way. After researching him and his painting style, I found that he developed a new type of art called "drip painting," and this became his technique throughout his painting career. Number 18 was painted in 1950 by the American painter, Jackson Pollock. I also found that he was not particularly good at drawing, so this is his alternative to painting and drawing. This lack of drawing skills led to him developing this drip painting.
As I looked at Number 18 more and more times, I began to see how much effort it actually took him to paint this. These paintings would take him weeks to develope and not just twenty minutes, as was my first impression. When Pollock made these type of paintings, it was a way for him to express himself without drawing. He made this "Drip Art" extremely popular and is famous worldwide for it. After researching Jackson Pollock and his Number 18 painting, I now know why he painted that way and also how much effort really went into his effortless looking paintings.
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