Special Edition: Modern Art

This painting is an oil on canvas and is called the "Greyed Rainbow" by Jackson Pollock. He made this by using a blank canvas and black and white paint. Pollock did this by putting his canvas on the floor or on a wall. He did a network of dripping, splattering, and painted lines with black and white paint. He used sticks, knives, and trowels instead of brushes to complete the process called action painting.  

This painting is an oil on canvas and is called the "Volunteer" by James Rosenquist. This painting is of various images that highlight different aspects of American life.  He arranges these different images this way showing the importance of these symbols of progress during that particular time period. Rosenquist used bright contrasting colors to depict each image from each other. Also, he puts images overlapping each other showing  which one was more important in that American society at the time. He is controlling the viewer's eye by making the hand print larger which is dominating the rest of the images. Rosenguist traced his own hand to represent "the hand that volunteers."

This painting is an oil on canvas and is called "The Death of the Poet Walter Rheimer" by Conrad Felixmuller. This is Walter Rheimer who admitted to be addicted to cocaine and was sent off to war. His depression worsened and his life flipped upside down when his wife left him, he lost his artistic creativity, and became poor. When Rheimer came back from World War I, he found himself not able to keep up with the fast changing modern world. This painting shows Rheimer who appears to very elegant and satisfied about to jump out the window and take his own life. The expression on his face represents that this could be anyone in his shoes of suicide. Rheimer is trying to say that it is possible to capture a moment in a persons life and remembering the event in a positive way to learn from it.