Jackson Pollock was an Abstract Expressionist who used the Action painting Tyler, as opposed to the Color Field Painting sibyl. He was active in the sass and 1 9505, joining a wealth of artists moving to the newly established art capital of the world. Pollock’s art practice consisted of lots of physical exertion; gesturer movements of the wrist, elbow and shoulder that created a rhythmic sense of pattern. As is evident in his most famous work Blue Poles (1952).
To create a massive work like Blue Poles his method included laying the large canvas on the floor, stretching it out, and pinning it down. He was then able to move around all four sides of he canvas. Using this method he felt importantly more ‘apart’ Of his work, thus facilitating the intentionally expressive and highly personal purpose of the work. Pollock didn’t use a brush, instead he used foreign implements (sticks, syringes, trowels) and added foreign materials (such as nails, broken glass and sand).
Pollock preferred to use a stick to best exploit the ‘drip’ technique or effect he wanted to create. This collection of abstract tools added to his intensely expressive practice. The artworks he created were unique but so personal that the audience were detached and the meaning to the works were seemingly unrecognizable. The public mostly reacted with distaste, hence Pollock’s artworks were largely unpopular amongst the general public. Pollock’s deeply expressive work contrasts greatly with the body of work of Andy Warhol.
Whorl’s artworks were mostly produced using the silk-screen printing. He employed several assistants to help him create his numerous works at the pace he desired. Thus originality is questionable in Whorl’s works works, where the process was, in its machine-like and impersonal manner, reflecting the mass- reduction of the consumer world. The process is vital and a personal journey for Pollock, yet for Warhol it was just seemingly a chore required to create the end product. He changed the accepted view of what an art work should be.
Whorl’s works generally consisted of flat areas of color, very little tone or texture and bold outlines and bright colors. Pollock’s works were composed Of an abundance of texture which reflects the great difference to Warhol and his flat images. The subject matter of Whorl’s works were generally a consumer product, even he face of a celebrity was reproduced like another mass-produced image, thus these subjects that were so common in pop culture (such as Green Coca- Cola Bottles;1962 and Campbell Soup Can;1961-62) provided images readily identifiable to the audience.
Hence Pop Art and its artists were popular due to this familiarity and Andy Warhol himself achieved the level of stardom he often portrayed in some of his works(such as Marilyn, 1964). Such familiarity meant that these works by Warhol were tangible. The public could understand them, or at least admire their basic aesthetic value. The motional intangibility of Pollock’s works contrast greatly with Whorl’s works. The public could also enjoy the rumor behind the works, like Brills Soap Box (1970). The two artists were almost completely divergent to each other.
However it must be noted that they both used art to portray something With a personal connection; as Warhol was a huge fan of celebrities and that was one of his main subjects. Warhol was a reaction against Pollock. Where Pollock’s work was firmly embedded in the subjective frame and the structural frame. Whorl’s works were usually in the guttural frame and the structural frame. Pollock’s works refer to him and his emotion, whereas Whorl’s works refer to the complete opposite the main-stream in an emotionless and apathetic way.
