Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning

The first piece i want to talk about it Jackson Pollock's Number 1. This picture consists of different colored splatters and lines and blots layered over and over again on a large canvas. as much as i like abstract art, this piece of art is just alright to me. it's pretty cool. it may be cooler if i saw it in person but in the book, i'm not quite engulfed in the picture. However, the patterns are still cool. I like the way it looks. it kinda reminds of of some samurais fighting in a war and the different splats could be the swords clashing and the blood spilling. The thing i do like about this picture is that it's kind of like an action movie to me. i can see many battles mostly involving swords, spears, and axes. But the thing that gets me the most is that there's not a clear idea about anything behind it. The book defines it as nonrepresentational because it doesn't represent anything or is inconsistent with an idea. but what i do like is the term action painting. I can feel action and movement in the painting and although there isn't a general idea behind it, i still get a bit of a rush when i look at this painting. I think the think it's lacking is scale. However, that may be because i'm looking at it in the book. I'm sure if i saw it in person it would be an entirely different story

the next piece i want to talk about is Willem de kooning's Woman IV. this painting somewhat reminds me of the kind of paintings picasso does. it's abstract and the way they paint a person is the way that they see that person. the fact that the artist painted this woman so monstrously and horridly suggests that maybe he doesn't quite like this woman. He makes her fat and undefined. I'm not sure if it's all women that the artists doesn't like but for sure he probably doesn't like this one. Well that's how the painting makes me feel. This painting gives off a lot of tension when i look at it and it can sometimes make me want to throw up the painting just makes me feel so much negative emotion to this woman. I also thought it was clever for him to use a lot of yellow and red when painting this obese woman because those are the colors most associated with eating and hunger. However, this painting actually does the exact opposite to me... It acts makes me not want to eat. I also like how the painting portrays this person's image of this woman. it may not be exactly how the woman looks but it is appears to be how the woman looks on the inside and how a person is inside is what matters most to me.

Both artists are similar in the sense that they are both abstract painters. however, the major difference between the two is their style. One artists makes nonrepresentational art while the other artist clearly has an idea behind his paintings.