Number 12
Art is not my autonomous skill compared to math and science; however, Jackson Pollock, an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement exercises my right brain. He was widely known for his technique of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles, called “All-Over Painting” and "Action Painting" since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint. Most Artists say that we must paint naturally whereas he said that he is nature.
According to many scientists' research, Jackson’s art works correlates with Physics theory about the avoidance of “Coil Instability of Fluid Dynamic”, that curls and coils in the pattern weren’t random. He dripped high-speed and short height by using a wooden stick onto the canvas in the same pattern and intention to create noticeable and purposeful movement through his own drip technique. I am very inspired by that technique because it expresses emotion in the artwork.
On my first trial at this technique, I used the household materials and experienced the new smell of mixing liquor drinks, various sauces (soy sauce as a background, tomato sauce and chili sauce as exhaust gas), baby powder, and fresh milk that the normal paint materials couldn't. I unleashed my emotion to ignite the rocket penetrate to somebody’s heart. After one week, all parts were dried except the exhaust seems still alive.
Jackson normally drinks liquor to build his emotions. For me, on my final product, I used a song to build my emotion. My own style of action followed the beat and rhythm of the song "In the End" by Linkin-Park as a theme of my product.
For the color schemes, I used primary colors including Rose Permanent Crimson Red, Yellow Mid, Ultramarine Blue because they matched my theme (hard feeling) together with White, Mars Black, Silver, Copper, and Gold. How did I do?
I splashed a cup of Red color representing blood and heart, then I used a boxing glove to punch the Red representing a person trying hard to breakthrough a complicated heart, broken instead.
I dripped White onto the canvas representing trying to remedy the relationship.
I prepared Yellow to make it sticky by mixing less water than White color to show that it was hard to recover.
I used Ultramarine Blue, the deep Blue Color that is much more sticky to represent that the situation was getting worse.
I used lots of Silver and Copper to represent ladies and gentlemen respectively surrounding to give advice.
I poured Gold to wish her heart desires.
I splashed Mars Black, a high tinting strength color, as the last layer to mean, in the end, it doesn’t even matter.
My action painting, not specified the title influenced by Jackson's style to allow the audience to imagine the work freely, given the number instead, is number 12 because it is my age, and it was in December when I got inspired by this song.
Click here to see my action painting performance