Saturday is always relaxing
and a little bit of doodling. I'd finished reading and writing, and
I'd called my parents, done my laundry. So I decided to go to
Harvard Art Museum after lunch, continuing the visit that hadn't
yet finished last time in the essay class.
I went there with an aim:
I wanted to write about "order in art" for the final essay, and
there was a piece of work by Jackson Pollock in Harvard Art Museum.
Last time the group assigned to discussing E.M. Forster was told to
discuss that piece of work and to counter the idea in the article
that each piece of work had real order and its internal
harmony.
The work was created by
dripping paints from the above, the canvas was huge, and according
to the introduction it was not entirely flat during the creation.
The artist, Jackson Pollock was famous for this very method, he was
even given the name "Jack the Dripper" for
this.
I sat in front of the
canvas for almost twenty minutes, writing down all of my thoughts
about how the picture could be related to the idea of E.M.Forster.
It would be very stupid to simply use this piece of work to argue
that E.M.Forster was wrong; I was thinking about digging into the
work and looking for clues that it was actually in
order.
To me, order in art
differs from order in real life; it means more than a society
that's running as it's supposed to, abiding the conventions and
rules. Order in art should be a state in which a piece of work has
a sense of life, and it can keep alive without external force. To
be, Jackson Pollock's No.2 is a great example of this. Though
paints and patterns are scattering all over the canvas, one can
still feel a sense of liveness; and the entity of the work doesn't
expand or shrink, that very canvas is exactly where it holds all of
its citizens: Bigger it won't be able to exhibit that sense of
intensity, smaller the entire picture will be too crowded. That's
another aspect indicating the order of this piece of
art.
I continued to walk
around, scanning through other paintings
exhibited.
Back to the computer lab,
I did some research on Jackson Pollock. Five minutes later, he's in
the list of "people who inspire me" in my facebook.
The museum is kind of
small, I had only stayed there for an hour.
Tomorrow I'll probably go
to Boston to the fine arts museum or modern arts
museum.
By the way, it was a lot
of fun.
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