Secular art exploring the spiritual world

I just read a statement by Jackson Pollock in a book I was reading "Writing about Art". The statement was made in 1947 in a small magazine called "Possibilities". The author of the book was looking at what the artist had written to understand his art. Let me just quote what I found interesting ,  "When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of get aquainted period that I see what I have been about." He is describing an unconscious working of the painting. It is this area where the spiritual world influences the physical world. In the case of Pollock, his alcoholism and other internal demons find expression in his paintings.  I haven't yet seen one of his works up close in a museum, but just seeing them in a book you can sometimes sense the demonic influence.

Abstract expressionism gives amplification to the inner spiritual man through painting much the same way rock and roll does through music.

 

I thought I would add this painting. I call it the Pollock Butterfly using the dripping technique to  express a kind of abstract realism. Just as the butterfly is transformed from the catapiller, so our messed up lives can be rebuilt in the hands of God.

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