Kinetic Verb Sounds

15/12/14

Kinetic verb sounds

After i had created my animations for each of my kinetic verb projects i added foley sound using premier to emphasise the movements i have created for them:

The sound effects i created for this animation where fairly difficult to create as the noises involved in the jump are not prominent other that when the word jumps and hits the floor when it lands. I included a slight creaking noise at the beginning of the animation to emphasises the backwards movement the letters make before the first small jump, to gain momentum. I also add some noises that represent the stretch as the letters when they jump up and on their way down from the jump as they reach for the floor to exaggerate and highlight these movements too. I also added some swooshing noises as the word jumps to represent movement of air and through the air. creating a 3d atmosphere about my piece. 

In this animation iv used creaking noises and sounds of fractionate emphasise the tension in the material of the word as it is being stretched. I used a 'wobble' springy noise created using a ruler at the point in which the word quivers and suggests it is so far stretched that it will not stretch any further. This noise again amplifies this perhaps easily miss action and draws attention to it. I used soft thudding noises ad the H hits the floor to show the soft nature of the material.

Kinetic Verb 2

08/12/14

Kinetic Verb 2

After creating the word leap and touching on the idea of stretch in parts of my jump, i decided to look more deeply into it and create an animation for stretch. I will most likely be using the elasticity of rubber bands as my subject matter and research for the motion of stretch as they are the most exaggerated and clear examples of how things stretch. My original idea before this was to create the word dive and make it move however after some storyboarding i decided against this as i felt it was far too similar in movement as leap motion reversed and i wanted to try something completely new. 
Bill Viola uses this idea of reversed movement however to create and illusion. 

He takes his videos under water and reverses them so that it appears as though the subject is leaping out of the water, in slow motion the water appears in the shape of wings almost creating a surreal and angelic appearance and giving quite a serene feel to it. This idea of reversing a dive to look like a jump is fairly similar to how i felt i would be working when creating the word dive after have created the word leap. 

Stretch:

Verb:

1. 1. 

   (of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking.

   "my jumper stretched in the wash"

   synonyms:

   be elastic, be stretchy, be stretchable, be tensile "the material stretches"

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2. 2. 

   straighten or extend one's body or a part of one's body to its full length, typically so as to tighten one's muscles or in order to reach something.

   "the cat yawned and stretched"

   synonyms:

   extend, straighten, straighten out, unbend

   
   

   Elasticity is the property of solid materials to return to their original shape and size after the forces deforming them have been removed. Recall Hooke's law first stated in 'The True Theory Of Elasticity Or Springiness' (1676) by Robert Hooke.

   
   

   

   
   

   This is a diagram of Hooke's Law. Showing the effect of forces on how an object will stretch. 

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   This image abouve shows how the shape of elastic is morphed when stretched. The central points of the object become ever so slightly thinner and bend inwards making the outer sides appear longer. The way the shape morphed is in an arched shape. This shows how the change in shape is a natural movement and how the object has potential momentum. The further an object is stretched and the more it is morphed the more kinetic energy the object will have and the more force behind the movement when let go, there will be. The object will move towards the centre of itself as it tried to obtain its normal shape again (which was changed from the middle) so it moves back towards the middle (opposite movement to how it moved to be stretched). 

   
   

                                    

This video shows in slow motion what happens to a rubber band in slow motion as it snaps back to its original shape. The band folds into itself as each fold hits the next. Obviously this video show the elastic band recoiling back to one point as it has been stretched from one point rather than two, and only let go at one point. The movement would be different it the band hand been let go from either end at the same time, however the video does show how there would be ripples in the band. I will try and include this idea in my own animation when i come to it, however it is harder to involve when not in slow motion.

I chose the thick, rounded and compact font of PT Sans to represent and symbolise rubber material. 

I videoed myself pulling a piece of blue tack apart to show the stretch involved in this motion and the way this material stretches. The way this material morphed, shows how the ends where i am holding the blue tack are wide and the centre of the blue tack get very slender and stretches quite far considering its size. The nature of the blue tack after it is stretched out like this means that it does not snap back like the elastic material does, it stays in this outstretched shape and simply droops and becomes more floppy due to its elongated shape.

This is another recording of the movement of blutac. Again the results are the same the centre gets thinner and the strain of the material can be seen by the colour becoming paler this emphasises the fact that a strain is happening and a thinning of the material when it is pulled apart.

I also did my own research on how an elastic band stretches and what would happen to my word if i were to re create its movements. I wrote down the word stretch physically onto the elastic band and then pulled it apart to see the effects. Over all the elastic band did not get thinner in the middle, the whole strip became slightly thinner but maintained a similar size across the band. The words however got shorter and wider as they stretched and i will use this in my work when i come to stretching the letters. 

This is the animation i created for my word based on my primary research on how blutac stretches and is manipulated in shape when pulled apart. I decided to have the ending of the animation make the word react to the removal of the rectangle and have the follow through action of snapping back to its original form like the elastic, combining my two research observations of the blutac stretch and the elastic stretch in order to give a more appealing visual effect whilst still having that exaggerated stretched morphing shape like the blutac where the middle becomes thinner with the stretch. Both these elements of the different materials stretching characteristics that i have used (the blutacs thinning characteristic and the elastics quick reaction at regaining its original shape) where the two most "stretchy" appearing aspects of each material with blutacs ending not looking as stretchy as elastic and elastics stretch morph not looking as stretchy as blutac. As i spoke about in my previous kinetic verb project, animation often uses exaggeration to create better visual effects however good animation is usually based on real motions that have been observed and studied. I have still based my animation on real principles of movement however exaggerated it in order to be more visual pleasing (as elastic would not morph in such a way). I Decided to start the word off as being unreadable and then pulled and morphed into readable text as this creates a slightly more interesting alternative approach to the obvious 'have a word and make it move' it also creates a thought process and then  realisation from the audience and therefore allows the audience to connect and interact. The shape i used is a simple rectangular shape that is representing a pulling force on the word and in this case giving it a kinetic energy. 

I made my word 'quiver' slightly just before the rectangle releases it and it snap back to suggest strain and tension on the word due to the action and to suggest it could be stretched no more (which is why the rectangle then lets go) and also to build anticipation and add more depth to the narrative of the clip.

In this video i have added colour to make the video more aesthetically pleasing and i used neutral colours to create a fair subtle appearance so that the colours did not over take or distract the animation. 

In this video i made the word move as though made out of the blutac material. When the rectangle lets go of the word instead of snapping back like my previous animation it flops down and swings a little before the H sticks and falls on the floor and the rest of the word slumps down with it and then slowly morphs down like chewing gum towards the floor to show its soft. I decided to make this version of my animation as my previous animation was a fairly obvious conclusion to the movement of stretch and of first thoughts of stretchy characteristics and nature (to snap back) however this is not the case with all 'stretchy' materials and it was interesting to create a second animation that studies and displays this and to see the difference and to see if it actually looked even realistic for a stretchy material, which i think in the end it did. This animation emphasises how the word has been stretched beyond its limits and is now limp and weak. it shows a less strong looking material and exaggerates the effects of the stretch. 

I made the finishing touches to my animation which i think really add to the visual qualities and help suggest the material of my word in depth. I added a slump at the end and then a slow squash down to suggest an almost gooey texture to the material and one that acts similar to balletic and chewing gum, slowly melting into its final resting point. This shows how the material is soft and moulds into a shape and is easily manipulated and not going to return to its original form, all of which are characteristics of the blutac i studied.  I cropped the frame of this video down to create a more pleasing and easy to view composition with the word being the main focus and dominating the screen rather than being over dominated by blank space. 

Picasso Lecture

Picasso

Born in october 25th 1881 and died on 8th april 1973 around these dates the art movements where changing with modernism rising in from 1881 and drawing to a close in 1973. 

From a very young age Picasso had exceptional talent and skills in waiting and working with proportions that most people would strive all their life to achieve. It was said he was child prodigy and could already render paintings majestically. This early development of his talent is probably what pushed him to explore other methods of creating his paintings that differed from 'realistic' and simply copying what was infant of him, and what encouraged him to delve into a more creative expressive exploitation.

Picasso understood that there was something very powerful about a childs painting and that the reduced nature towards the thought process and creation of the painting made it self expressive without any shackles of pressure or embarrassment or stress of time and organisation of daily duties that adults tend to face, meaning their paintings resemble qualities of a free spirit and care free nature expressing what they will. 

Picasso understood that there are more ways of perceiving things rather than just what we see directly around us and how we relate to the world and what we feel and even what we simply know to be, is not always easily involved in painting direct subject matter. Picasso play instinct also meant that he didn't have set out comes and toyed with breaking boundaries and finding new ways to display his perspective of the world. This is what lead him to his cubism stage. Picasso recognised that with our eyes we see things in one fixed place at one given moment. However the world is 3d Yet even at this point in time what we cannot see things we still know about them and our memory and imagination fills in the gaps for us. For example from a certain angle looking at a person we can only see one side of their face and one eye, yet we are still aware of the other eye, he tried to unravel the 3D world onto a 2D page by playing with profile angles and including what we know and what we can see and what we can sense all on one page an to display a certain subject matter. the essence of what we know. this is why some of his paintings of portraits look distorted like in this painting for example:

Marie Therese Walyer 1937:

This painting is profile yet also from the side. It shows the eyes expressing different emotions and overall does not look like how Marie will have looked. However it does perhaps show a deeper story about her displaying her as how she is sense/ felt or interpreted by Picasso. His sense of awareness of angles of her face and body and awareness of mood and emotions. as her skin is blue and there is a sad eye that should be hidden or the unseen eye with regards to where it is placed and the angle we are looking at her from (we should not be able to see that eye from this angle) suggest a hidden sadness about her perhaps and the lines of her face could even suggest entrapment.

This painting points back again to Picasso's interest in children paintings and the idea of trying to "draw like as a child". As adults people are bound by rules and laws as we know of the world we live in. A child has imagination that has no limits, regardless of the physics and nature of the world. And so they are painting with a much more direct conduct between what the child thinks, and what they draw and how they draw it. for example if the child is sad, they will show a sad essence of style.

This idea of creating a painting with the essence of an emotion brings us onto the topic of pica's blue period. Picasso's blue period is where for a length of time he painted all of his paintings in blue. This was because we was very sad after the death of his good friend Casagemous. He painted his paintings with sad emotion and found that blue was the colour he was drawn to in his sadness. Before this blue was not necessarily associated with sadness. 

"I started painting in blue when i heard of casagemous's death" - Pablo Picasso

before this the colour blue was more associated with a royal nature, due to the Lapiz Lazuli, an expensive stone that was ground and used for its blue colour (the only way to get the colour blue at one time). After his work the colour blue became more associated with reflection and sombreness. And the genre of blues music came around with songs like the blue train in 1963. 

Picasso also used lots of symbolism in many of his pieces one painting in particular that shows lots of symbolism is Guernicia

This painting is riddled with symbolism. The painting is in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque country village in northern Spain by german and Italian warplanes at the hand of Spanish nationalist forces on 26th april 1937, during the Spanish civil war. The painting shows an arm holding a broken sword showing the lack of appropriate weaponry and how the weapons were no match for the bombs that hit the area. The bull in the image suggests the potential death of Spanish culture and destruction of Spanish lives. The suffering horse shows the suffering of innocents, horses in battle do not choose to go but this is used as a symbol and so refers to innocent people swell. The expression on the horse also symbolises agony and pain in suffering. The woman holding a baby also shows this idea of suffering as she holds a limp lifeless corpse. This also represents loss of care and nurture. 

A Chance To Notice

12/11/14

A Chance To Notice

I will be observing my surroundings again for this project similar to the observation project i did however i will be looking at movement and deciding on how i will capture the movement of things i notice other than by videoing them. The area in which i will be working can be any where (last time i was just observing in the small confined area of the courtyard) however this leaves more room for too many distractions while i observe rather than slowing down in one confined area and becoming almost foreseeing with my observations and recordings. As i will be in paris and moving around for most of this project my observations are likely to be much more rushes and less in a sense 'zoomed into the area however it will be interesting to see the comparisons between my work from this project and the observation project.

I will be focusing on movements in this project and recording movement from my observation. I will try and stay away from recording videos of movements as this is an obvious way of recording movement and in a way stunts the challenge slightly. I will think about various drawing techniques as well as photographic techniques to capture motion and the stages of movement.



Giacomo Balla "Dynamism Of A Dog On A Leash" (1912):

This image shows movement captured with simply painting the image. The  blurring qualities where the stages of movement in the legs are shown suggests quick movements and the lines along the background of the painting suggest a moving ground showing that the two subjects in the painting are  moving along the ground. Between the blurring effects where the moving elements are (such as the legs of both subjects, the lead, the dogs ears and tail) you can also see slightly the actual part of the subject drawn again, for example the dogs tail shows multiple drawings of the tail. This shows the stages of movement and the past positions the tail has been in when moving. 

Henri Cartier Bresson "Gare Saint Lazare"(1932):

This is a photograph image and is completely still and frozen in time however still manages to display movement excellently. The photographer has captured the image at just the right time, showing the pose of the man with both feet off the ground and in a running position (his legs open) also his tail coat is moving which shows the movement of the man and the speed in which he's traveling. The ripples in the water show movement and the movement of the man is emphasised by the ballerina in the background on the poster. The man in the image is also slightly blurred and out of focus and just his shapes is displayed, suggesting the speed of his movement again. The fact that he is but centimetres from touching the puddles shows anticipation of movement and creates tension as he is so close to finishing the movement and touching the floor to carry on walking yet he is frozen in this 'almost' pose. 

My resources unfortunately were fairly limited for this project due to being on the paris trip and i could not take a large variety of materials however this is the work i did produce:

This is an image i took when i was in paris of a Carrousel spinning round. It was at night time that i observed this subject and so the lights on the carrousel were on making the movement of the carousel more prominent, as you can see the light moving through the dark space around it creating a clear contrast between the two. I tried many ways to capture this image showing movement however i only had my phone camera and some pencils to do so. I decided that i would take a series of photograph of the carrosell and when i got back home i would over lap them on photoshop making each new photograph i placed on top of the previous one, more opaque. By doing this, as you can see in the image it creates a blurred effect showing where the carrousel had been previously and showing the stages of motion. 

I then decided that seeing as i was working based on this idea of more like the memory of movement (as i re created the movement when i got back home rather than capturing the movement in the pressent) that i would represent the emotional aspect i felt at the time in the image as well. The first image shows the memory of the movement well however the colours are quite washed out and faded, with little difference between the tones of the colours. I remember the carousel being bright and bold against the dark night and i have tried to represent this in a way by editing the colours in the image. Also the people that can be seen slightly in the image above are almost unrecognisable in this edited version, this also represents the idea of faded memories and how a memory of a thing can be changed and adapted due to forgetting the original event slightly. The motion blurs in the images also symbolise this in a way as in a "blurred memory".

This is a close up image of the carousel that i used the same technique of overlaying images to show movement. These works of the carousel i have done are similar to Giacomo Balla's painting of the moving woman and dog as his painting is based on the memory of movement as he shows where the subjects are previously been to display his movement in the painting. 

I used this technique of overlaying to show the motion blur and previous stages of movement in my image. This image shows what looks like a car splashing a puddle as it drives past, the movement of the water is obvious in this image an is emphasised by the still qualities of the leaves on the pavement. What is actually happening in this image is the grid itself was over flowing and water was pouring out of it and spraying in the air. I simply waited for a car to drive past before i took my shot to give the illusion that it was the car spraying the puddle, as this emphasises the movement of the car and suggests movement of the car (as opposed to simply capturing a moving car on its own, it would look still) again the motion blur i added emphasises it movement further, but the spraying water is the biggest contribution to this. This idea i have shown in my work of capturing something at just the right moment to show suggestive movement is similar Henri Cartier Bresson's image of the man about to run into a puddle. He Captured his image at just the right moment and the movement of the mans legs and coat tail show the suggestive movement just as the spraying water in my image shows the suggestive movement of the car. 

 After i had come home from paris i took some slow shutter speed photographs of moving cars out side of my house. This photograph shows the trail of lights made by a traveling car as the vehicle was moving too quickly for the slow shutter speed to capture however it can capture light and the movement of light. This image creates quite a dreamlike abstract effect due to the fact that the car cannot be seen and only the artistic sweeps of light are visible in the image. They stand out in the everyday scenery.

This image shows the capture of the movement of a car more clearly as the van itself can actually be seen in the image. This is because the van slowed right down almost to a halt at one point in the image. The trail of light and blur trailing from the van then shows its movement and where it traveled too. This image shows a real life technique that looks similar to Giacomo Balla's work. 

 This is one of the sketches i drew when i was in paris (my equipment was limited) using pencil. I observed a leaf on the floor swaying in the wind and decided to try and represent its movements and stages of position by drawing it in its different positions as it moved back and forth. Again this is a similar idea to that of Giacomo Balla and the luring effect made by drawing the stages of posits created a similar look and is based on a similar idea to his painting.

This was another quick sketch i drew while in paris of a bike when moving. Again i used the same idea as with my previous drawing showing the blur of the movement and stages of position, however my equipment was not great and the pencil i was using didn't showery well a progression of the movement for example if i had used a material with i could rub away such as charcoal i could have displays the most faded stage as being the starting point of the movement.

When i got home i tried this drawing again but with dark chalk. I was able to rub away the first marks i made in order to create a progressive effect and to display the stages of the movement and show how it moved from left to right (as the marks on the left are more faded).

Physics In Motion

5/11/14

Physics in motion

The focus of this project is to observe how objects move in relation to the laws of physics. Using some of the principles of animation, replicate real life physics and exaggerate motion to enhance expression.
I will be using stop motion to create the various movements in this projects. I will use cut out black card to make the shapes that i will animate and use white card as the background so my animation is clear and there is a contrast between the two so the audience can clearly see the movements i am making.
i will consider each caption beneath the exercise to estimate an appropriate motion (e.g. if it says the object is heavy or big).

Newtons Laws Of Motion:

I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

II. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.

III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

when animation you need to consider what the material and nature of the subject matter is like:

. is it heavy?

. is it big?

. how springy is it?

. how smooth is its surface?

How Heavy Is It?:

Gravity affects speed. (increases when falling decreases when rising). 

Galileo (an Italian scientist and scholar that made pioneering observations in the 15 and 1600's, that laid out the foundation for modern physics and astronomy) proved that an objects weight does not affect its falling speed. But lighter, bigger objects are effect more by wind resistance.

This video of a man on the moon proves his theory correct:

                              

Weight (or mass) also effect inertia. Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its motion (including change in direction). In other words it is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at constant linear velocity. (e.g. a fast car turning a bend)

How Big Is It? 

if for example bounding balls (animated) move fast, it gives the appearance of them being small. If it bounces slowly it suggests it is large. This effect how close up the camera appears to be to the animated objects as the slow bouncing balls will look large but from a far away distance. 

Air resistance may come into play also e.g. a beachball or balloon with floating movements between bounces. 

How Springy Is It? 

Materials like rubber retain energy and bounce more. but so do hard objects like a ping pong ball on wooden flooring. the nature of the material should be decided before animating as there are also crumpling and soft materials to consider such as cars, plastercine and more that don't spring back into shape and therefore bounce less. 

How Smooth Is It?

Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers and material elements sliding against each other. An example of the is a bicycle slowing down when it moves from road to grass and even more so when it moves from grass to sticky mud. The grooves in the tire are making more contact with the mud etc and stick between the wheels. 

Animators look and work from these real world physics however they exaggerate them to amplify the effects. 

With out understanding the laws of physics, exaggeration in the wrong place can quickly dispel the illusion and can make uncomfortable viewing. Although it can be used as a comical effect and is seen in some cartoons:

                                

An Animated bouncing ball:

This diagram shows that animated bouncing balls will have vertical acceleration and deceleration, squash and stretch in parts of the bounce before and after it hits the ground. Its will also have successive lower and shorter bounces. The animation will also show the use of arc movements.

Diagrams showing the difference between real motion and an animated possibly cartoon motion:

The horizontal spacing is even between the real motion and varies in the animated motion. 

Here are some videos i made using stop motion to start to understand the laws of physics and how things move:

I then recreated some of the animations i made using after effects. The difference between the two methods are that i could go back and edit and alter the after effects animations where as the stop motion ones i would have to re do the whole thing. Also the after effects creation moved more smoothly and clear.

Context Lecture Review

10/10/14

Lecture Review

In todays lecture we looked at abstract expressionism. Abstract expressionism emerged in the early 1940's and created stylistically diverse work that introduced new radicals and broke away from accepted conventions in art. There was a directional shift in focus from paris to NYC in america.
Abstract expressionism was first used in germany in connection with the artist Kandinsky.

Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works.Kandinsky's creation of abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervour of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was a central aspect of his art.

Born in Moscow, Russia in 1866, Kandinsky grew up a boy fascinated by color. Eventually, he would liken the painting process to that of orchestrating a musical composition. He wrote:

Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Kandinsky was said to have Synesthesia and this ws thought to have been the inspirational factor of his abstract art work.

In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently coloured. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may appear as a three-dimensional map (clockwise or counterclockwise).

Only a fraction of types of synesthesia have been evaluated by scientific research. Awareness of synesthetic perceptions varies from person to person.is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes.

While skeptics have long debated the legitimacy of Kandinsky’s synesthesia it seems to have played an undeniable, integral role in his life and artwork. He once described his discovery of the phenomenon – something that occurred during an opera performance in Moscow:

"I saw all my colours in spirit, before my eyes. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me." -Kandinsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky

This image shows an example of Kandinsky's work. The piece is very abstract and reflects this idea of Kandinsky having synthesesia.

We looked at other artists who experimented with abstract expressionism such as Jackson Pollock a European artist who moved to america and began creating paintings using dripping paint to display emotion and feeling in a less figurative way.

Mark Rothoko was another artist who made abstract creations that portrayed a mood and feel ing again with any figurative images.

This is an example of one of Rothkos painting in which he is portraying a feeling to the audience. He used space and colour to create a mood that the audience will then look at and interoperate in their own individual ways. This is the beauty of abstract art. The meaning of the painting is never ending as how each person will perceive that painting, gives new meaning to it individually and is still relevant even if that meaning is different to what the artist had in mind when creating the piece. 

To me i think this painting is creating a very uplifting mood and has a rather tranquil warm feeling about it due to the warm bright colours and the elevated shape within the frame of the painting. However it also has a small element of sadness to it as it represents a somewhat temporary state of beauty which to me is symbolised by the sunset looking appearance of the painting. And like a sun set is temporary this painting gives a feeling of present beauty which is made more precious by the feeling of being temporay (like with a sun set, eventually the sun will set and the view will no longer be there to look at). 

Context Abstract Art - Myth, Memory And Ritual

17/10/14

Abstract Expressionism

In this lecture we looked at how ritual, myth and memories are present in abstract expressionist art. 

As i mentioned in my previous lecture essay, the abstract movement was moved from paris to america. America was becoming seen as the original place for this art and was becoming interesting and 'cool' in the way that people were starting to see it with regards to art and advertisements etc. This created some myth about abstract art as america was seen as the place where american artists were creating these unique and interesting works of art however in some cases this was not entirely true as many jewish artists actually fled europe during ww11 to america and starting creating their art works. Jackson Pollock was one of these artist and his work shows lots of american iconography and symbolisms such as his painting of wagons being pulled by horses showing the journey people made to california to live 'The America Dream'.

His later more abstract paintings he made using paint drips were inspired by native indian sand drawing and dances. The way he made these painting was even inspired by this as he had the canvas on the ground so he could move around and inside the painting like how the indians would with the sand drawings. This is creating a myth of his origins and where he came from etc. 

Memory was shown in abstract expressionism by artists such as Arshille Groky who was trying to remember the place he used to live as a child 'Armenia' and was creating abstract pieces to represent the place and the feeling of the place. Lots of works like this have been made. Memories can become foggy and disjointed and so when an artist embraces these factors an abstract painting would be more representative of this memory and even loss of memory in order to portray what they are feeling and trying to recall. Sigmund Freud had a theory that the subconscious mind is shown in dreams. Many artists also embraced this idea of painting dreams swell and the memory of dreams all creating ver abstract pieces.