Another painting in our apartment is called Convergence by Jackson Pollock. Pollock, an artist that mastered the technique of splattering paint across a canvas, almost makes viewers dizzy with the array of paint that is dripped, splashed, and sloshed around in this masterpiece. I know that it even feels dizzy making this type of art, as my mother, cousin, and I made some of these types of “drip paintings” as they are called, before I went to high school.   Using simple, monotone, primary colors of white, black, red, yellow, and blue for his palette, Pollock throws the paint at the canvas, creating a “convergence” of vivid, vibrant colors that have been suddenly strewn together into lines that are hair thin, that are thick, and that are every shape and size in between.   With this unique method of assembling paint on a canvas, diversity is created. And as […]