BRAIN

I have chosen to discuss the principles of brain and iteration in art. I will be looking at the work of Jackson Pollock and Piet Mondrian to demonstrate that two very different styles of working can be arrived at through similar thought processes.I will investigate the notion that both brains are used to create art but in varying proportions. Finally I have chosen to look at the work of a number of artists to show how they have used iteration and how it has benefited their work and why.

                                                    Number 1A, 1948  Jackson Pollock 1948


Jackson Pollock's work is the most abstracted and animalistic I could think of to define the use of the right brain in art. 'As he "scrambled" around the canvas that would become number 1A,1948..'. (Lanchner,2009,p.29)

Opposition of lines: Red and Yellow, Piet Mondrian1937

I felt that Piet Mondrian's geometric abstractions were a good example of contrasts to Pollock's loose and fully physical way of interpreting the world and demonstrates a more ordered left brain approach from the application of paint to the placing of the lines and their dimensions.' his greatest desire was to attain personal purity, to disregard all that pleases the narrow self and enter in to divine simplicities'.(www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/pure-abs.html)  This statement has a similar notion to Pollock's announcement " I am nature"! (Lanchner,2009,p.35) So although these artists had different outcomes in their work, their intellectual states were on a similar wavelength, the use of the left brain.


This essay is currently incomplete but I will be completing it in the next day or so.