compare and contrast picasso's guernica and jackson pollock's autumn rhythm! help!!?

Answer 1

Here is where I would start thinking about the assignment that you have.

1. The Scale of the works... how large they are compared to the viewer. What is that effect on the viewer.

2. The color or lack thereof of these paintings. How does that affect the viewer.

3. The overall patterns or lack thereof and what that message is.

4. Pollock's work does not tell a story... Picasso's Guernica is a response to a massacre [it tells a story]

links to Autumn Rhythm images (Number 30), 1950
Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956)
Enamel on canvas; 105 x 207 in. (266.7 x 525.8 cm)
George A. Hearn Fund, 1957 (57.92)
© 1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/na/hob_57.92.htm

http://chrisashley.net/resources/images/2005July/NY/PollockMet1.jpg


Links to Guernica images
Pablo Picasso
Oil on linen canvas 349 x 777 cm
El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

http://www.museoreinasofia.es/s-coleccion/coleccionp.php
http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/picassoguernica.htm
http://marksarvas.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/guernica.jpg

some interesting comments with good references.
http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2004/12/on_guernica.html

Answer 2

Picasso's "Guernica" is an abstract painting of recognizable images that represent the destruction of a Spanish town during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. It is an appeal to your emotions. Jackson Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm" is an abstract painting of non-recognizable images. It is completely abstract; a design. There is no object. It is completely subjective. His "action painting" forms a pattern that fills the canvas. There is nothing to hold the eye to any one area of the painting unlike with Picasso's painting. Both are large paintings in black, grey and white.