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Question Answered step-by-step Hi! Please utilize this art piece for the discussion/prompt seen… Image transcription textMany images of works of art were included in Chapters 2 and 3. A poem was also included. Consider theseworks of art and share which one you most participated with. Insert an image of the work with your post, soeveryone can easily refer to it while reading your post. Explain why the one you chose deman… Show more… Show moreHi! Please utilize this art piece for the discussion/prompt seen above. Please discuss in detail what captured you with the image, highlighting the colors and history behind it, seen below. Please ensure this prompt is well detailed and proofread to convey your points clearly. In Jackson Pollock’s The Flame (Figure 3-3), the details of the flames, in the brilliant reds, the orange-whites, and the deep contrasts in the blacks of the composition, are so vigorous that on first inspection it is difficult to see the forms that begin to appear. If we did not know the name of the painting, we might have no idea whether something is being represented or if the painting is an example of abstraction, a style for which Pollock was usually known. But closer examination shows the formal order in the center of the painting, creating a triangular structure controlled by the angular red flames rising to the top center. The central flame in orange-white seems to rise from two angular forms in white (possibly parts of a skeleton?) that angle down in the middle, the base for the central flames. All the detailed shapes angle upward, as we expect fire to do. The subject matter of the painting is flame, but the intensity of the colors and the power of the contrasts of black, white, and red reveal an energy in the flame that suggests something dreadful. If this were a painting made in the Middle Ages, we would assume it to be an allusion to the pits of hell. However, Pollock was influenced in 1936 by the works of José Clemente Orozco, which portray war in Mexico and threats to civilization. Destruction and skeletons figure in much of Orozco’s work in the 1930s. Could the content of the painting point to an apocalypse? Arts & Humanities Writing ART 100 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)
