What is unconventional about Pollock’s method?

A member of the post-war New York School/Abstract-Expressionist group, Jackson Pollock has been an influence on the painters that followed him. His painting methods were highly unconventional and his technique is irrevocably linked to the interpretations of his work. Never before had the process of painting been as important as the subject.
Read the excerpt below from a recording of Jackson Pollock and answer the questions at the end. Be sure you use correct grammar and spelling, and provide informed answers. A minimum of two pages typed, with 12 pt type in Times Roman, double-spaced, with 1” margins is required. Cite your sources in (a minimum of two which can include the sources below and your textbook), correct MLA format.
“My painting does not come from the easel. I hardly ever stretch my canvas before painting. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. This is akin to the method of the Indian sand painters of the West.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass and other foreign matter added.
When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It is only after a sort of “get acquainted” period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. The source of my painting is the unconscious. I approach painting the same way I approach drawing. That is direct—with no preliminary studies. The drawings I do are relative to my painting but not for it.”
Possibilities 1. Winter 1947/48, p. 79 reprinted in Jackson Pollock by Francis V. O’Connor (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967)
1. What is unconventional about Pollock’s method?
2. Select a specific Pollock painting. Give the title and the year, and
copy/paste the image into your paper. How does this painting use the
visual elements and principles of design (formal analysis)?
3. Pollock felt that he was painting his unconscious. What does he mean
by this, and how is this true or not true for the image that you have
selected?

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