FINE ARTS 3 (A)

Reflection of the Big Dipper, 1947 by Jackson Pollock

https://www.jackson-pollock.org/reflection-of-the-big-dipper.jsp

Please research the painting and review your text book. Then answer the following questions.

1) What is abstract painting? How is it defined?

2) What is the media used and how does it add to the piece?

3) What examples of contrast can you find —i n color, size, shape?

4) How would the painting look if its orientation was horizontal? Do you think the artist would have painted it differently?