How To Pour Your Heart Out and The Paint as Well

Luscious paint of every color oozing, dripping, running, blending, sliding. What else can one do with paint? Streak it, drip it, splash it, roll in it , artist for centuries have been mesmerized by paint and its pliability and powerful colors. They say that creative genius is not in the perfection or the reality of how the image is expressed but in the ability to express feelings, emotions, sensuality in a way no artist in history has done before. Artist spend lifetimes seeking to create imagery in ways no others have before them.

The famous and tortured Jackson Pollock was the first to splash and drip paint creating powerful and emotional works of art. He will go down in art history as a creative genius as a result of his creative bravery.

Born January 28, 1912 Pollock lived a tortured life until August 11, 1956. This creative genius artist was an influential American painter. He was broke the boundaries of abstract expressionism. This known reclusive artist had a volatile personality often believed to have stemmed from his struggled with alcoholism. In 1945, he married. His wife and also an artist her name was Lee Krasner .

Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident. He was given a memorial retrospective at the famous MOMA in the year 1956. Before his death his wife Lee was said to have had great influence over Jackson and helped to push his career and work further into fame and genius.

Nature and the force of gravity are the inspiration of multi-media artist Holton Rower . Layers of fluid paints in colors from light to dark and from warm to cool hypnotize the audience. The thick syrup like paints are poured slowly in a controlled ceremony over tall towers allowing gravity to create and control imagery. Kaleidoscope like patterns are created as the ceremonial participants gently step out of the way allowing blending burst of color to drip slowly pooling it elegantly on the floor.