Ishtar Queen of the Night meets Jackson Pollock - Shimmering Substance (1946)
Description
This
painting is entitled Shimmering Substance (1946) which was created by
Jackson Pollock in 1946. This painting is one of Jackson Pollock's abstract
expressionism works. This work uses Pollock's signature drip method. Pollock
painted this work influenced by Carl Jung's thoughts on the "collective
unconscious" and "mythology." It is very clear how Pollock
patiently drips paint after paint from his brush onto the canvas that he
spreads on the floor, the drip technique used by Pollock is very distinctive
because Pollock uses a brush just like a stick covered with paint. Pollock on
the canvas that he spread, colored the canvas using a brush that had been
covered with paint and then dripped without hitting the brush directly. He
sprinkled every color in the brush on the canvas, every splash of this color
looks like a touch of modern art. From the splash of color that finally made
this masterpiece, we can see how deep the painter's intersection with Carl
Jung's thinking is.