C is for Convergence

Today's painting for my A to Z was the original inspiration for my theme; this is Convergence by Jackson Pollock, a painter nicknamed 'Jack the Dripper' by Time magazine because of his style of dripping and throwing paint onto the canvas. As his career progressed he began numbering rather than naming his pictures, to stop people trying to interpret them as something figurative, they are not pictures *of* anything.

Jackson Pollock webpage

We recently did a jigsaw puzzle of this painting and enjoyed very much the time spent examining it in minute detail. You come to appreciate the interaction of the controlled and the random; the colours, the quantities and the direction of application are controlled, but the interactions of the colours and the exact way they land are not. I became quite fascinated by the process, wondering if he created it all at once, or let some colours dry before adding more, and wishing I could see it in real life to examine the texture which does not come across at all in a photograph.
Totally coincidentally, yesterday morning I came across this fabulous website, where you can create your own action painting masterpiece; simply swirl your mouse and click to change colour.

(Linking back to the A to Z Challenge)