This is an entirely different style of painting compared with the traditional Western paintings. In the history of Western art, sexuality is usually defined precisely by the portrayal of bodies. For instance, women are often portrayed in various passive positions, in order to cater to male viewer’s satisfaction. The composition of a picture, selection of color, the application of lights and shades, and display of nude bodies, however, are all diminished in Pollock’s paintings. In No.22, there are only yellow, pale blue, and black enamel applied on the Masonite (No. 22), which Pollock used in place of canvas. Haphazard intersected strokes, having no orderliness to obey, minimize the role of the center in the painting, which generated sort of decomposition (Chave
This is an entirely different style of painting compared with the traditional Western paintings. In the history of Western art, sexuality is usually defined precisely by the portrayal of bodies. For instance, women are often portrayed in various passive positions, in order to cater to male viewer’s satisfaction. The composition of a picture, selection of color, the application of lights and shades, and display of nude bodies, however, are all diminished in Pollock’s paintings. In No.22, there are only yellow, pale blue, and black enamel applied on the Masonite (No. 22), which Pollock used in place of canvas. Haphazard intersected strokes, having no orderliness to obey, minimize the role of the center in the painting, which generated sort of decomposition (Chave