Modern Art

The flame was influenced by the light and energy emitting out of the fire at the time.. If you look closely to the image you will notice that he also drew skeletons, in by José Clemente Orozco's mural at Dartmouth College,  The Epic of American Civilization  (1932-34), you may see various scenes of  flames and human sacrifices. Looking at this painting more, I also like how you can see the different brushstrokes used at the time and how it has great composition.

This is a painting called Blue Poles, and was painted by Jackson Pollock. I chose this painting because I like how all of the colors seem to be splattered randomly, yet they look like they complement each other smoothly. I also like the noticeable blue poles that strike through the painting. It's possible the painting was never supposed to have them, but Jackson thought the painting needed something else. 

I really like the colors used. it like blues of every shade swirled into one work of art. every shade imaginable all in one, blue blue of the sea mixed with the blue of a sky.the blues merged into a wave to hug a sphere almost as if the sea kissed the moon. yellows and whites spewing from the moon into a mass of purples and magenta. i wonder why the drizzle of orange was chosen to solidify it all.

I really liked this Pollock painting a lot for a few reasons. I like how he mixed the colors and the way each swirl seems to follow a certain kind of pattern. I personally think that its "messiness" is actually what makes it so original and unique. I also believe that each person that views this painting is meant to have their own personal perception as to what the painting actually is. Perhaps the painting isn't supposed to be anything specific at all. Either way, I really liked this one.

 Franz Marc created  Deer in the Forest  in 1913/1914, and was an oil on canvas painting. The painting had many defining features due to the intensity of colors. Colors like the red, green, blue, yellow and even black. The painting had a doubled theme of d eer and landscape. I love this painting because at first glimpse it is only a ray of colors then turns into something more. Franz Marc was a German painter and printmaker. Most of his paintings was in the style of Expressionism. I loved how he defined his paintings, "I try to intensify my sensitivity for the organic rhythm of all things; I seek pantheist empathy with the vibration and flow of the blood of nature-in the trees, in the animals, in the air . . . I see no happier medium for the 'Animalization' of art, as I would like to call it, than the animal picture."  I believe this does represent what most of his paintings really are.

This painting is called Mural by American artist Jackson Pollack done in 1943. This painting was done during and is classified as an Abstract Expressionism Art piece. You can tell this is abstract expressionism because this painting simply does not create a specific 'thing'- such as a portrait or a landscape. This painting consists of lines that vary in width and color. Accompanying the strokes are some blotches of paint as if he splattered it on by flicking a paint brush. What is so fascinating about abstract art is that it can be interrupted in many ways, I believe more so than 'normal art.' With that being said I did research and these are not just random strokes of paint on a canvas. This painting suggests that there are several human figures walking or possibly birds or letters and numbers with broken swirls of various colors.