Style In this particular work we find what made Jackson Pollock famous and that is CHOAS. This work is an example of representational abstract art. Moving from the first through the sixth screenprint we find different features of humans in the art. Not only man but also woman and both together. These works say a lot about the frame of mind that Pollock had during this time period. It seems that everything about the series is chaotic, but still has a central message to it. The message is one of humanity. Beginning with the first piece in the series you find almost a crazed war scene with parts of human bodies in all different places. Moving to the second work it seems to be a man dancing around a fire somewhat showing the barbaric side of man. In the third frame it looks to be a picture of a barroom with people sitting and drinking. The fourth one, which is the most distinctive one, shows a man and woman engaged in intercourse. Coming to the fifth in the series, we find another hugely chaotic scene in which the figures seem to be fighting. Finally, the sixth is thrust upon us and the main identifiable form in the work is a human face found in the lower right corner with something on top of his head. This one represents all of the works together by ending the series with what is constant in life and that seems to be humanity or the picture of. The artist and the works both come from a number of different styles ranging from cultural to period to personal. Pollock began his work with abstract expressionism during the end of World War II around the 1940s. At this time Lisovicz 2Pollock was experiencing social and personal unrest about the war and life itself. There had to be another way to express himself as an artist. This began an uprising of artist, working with the emotions and not the order that they had been taught. Or did th...
