Christmas Day Jackson Pollock Homage

A photo in the spirit of a happy Jackson Pollock, had he been a happy man. Of course, had he been a happy man, he wouldn't have been Jackson Pollock. Certainly not the abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. Maybe a happy Jackson Pollock chef. Or happy Jackson Pollock cab driver. Which would have been worse for the art world but, most likely, better for him. Certainly better for his wife.

I took this photo (the untouched original is the last image below) on Christmas Day playing on our back porch with my Mother-in-law, a woman who has become more ambitious artistically by the year. Impressive. And inspiring. She invited me on Christmas day to play on the porch with her by ruining some images from magazines with a dissolvant. Sounded like fun to me, and it was. The photo you see is actually of cellophane covering what I know not, probably a smudged magazine image. I can't remember. Then I played with the photo with my software. I love this image. I can't remember the last time I printed one of my photos, but I may print this one and display it in my house. I think it's lovely. I'm more of a form and contrast guy than a color guy, but these colors are so very satisfying to me.

So what you gots here is a bit of the Jackson streaks and lines (below).


And you throw in a dash of Matisse's boldness in color...



And a touch of Kandinsky's abstract swirls (below)...



And you can convert this (below) to what's up above.