And this experience of not being able mentally to comprehend forms that the senses innocently apprehend is an emotional experience. Above, across, through, over, around this near-anarchy are Pollock's lines. In modern physics, the world-line is a concept that signifies the path a physical object follows during its existence. Yet it does not just travel through space. This binds together far-flung elements with startling events.
Time makes space meaningful.
Pollock's late style resembles this complicated modern physics. In art, a purposive will makes emotion meaningful. And such an unaided contest between discipline and freedom is really the essential task of making a modern life. Rosenberg cut painting off from daily existence. Pollock knitted painting into the fabric of daily existence.