Abstract:
The interpretation of some pictures from Jackson Pollock, between 1942 until 1946, lead to the spiritual world of the Red Indian. The examination of the mythological and religious aspects of his work, an example for the beginning of the Abstract Expressionism, explain the reception of the totemism and the ethnological primitivism. So we come to the conclusion, that the existential underlaying of nature is very important for Pollock. The iconographical analysis of the motives out of the pictures offers comparisons with Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and André Masson and shows the influences of the Surrealism in Exil and the Mexican art. Hereby is this dissertation a guide to the deeper sense of the abstract painting.