The great abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock created his paintings largely by throwing paint and ink to drip against the canvas. But suppose he had used flower petals rather than ink?
If Jackson Pollack Dripped Using Flower Petals © Harold Davis
Looking at Pollock’s art, I find a great deal of structure beneath the apparent abstraction, chaos, and anarchy. As I made my flower-petal Pollock I tried to imbue the piece with a comparable underlying structure, admittedly not always apparent amid the flower petals I “dripped” at random onto my light box!
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[…] flower bed with a row of stems) in a garden. After this version was complete, I entered the “Jackson Pollack” phase: spreading dried petals to some extent randomly, and taking advantage of […]