Recurring themes #2 (Drip painting)

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950

I started drip paintings closer to the second half of the 1940s, mainly between 1947-1950. There is a heavy use of the black and white industrial enamel paint here, overlapping each other in harmony. The steaks of paint spread relatively evenly across the surface of the canvas, treating every colour which equal importance. That is mainly the gist of most of my drip paintings. 

However, closer to the period of 1950s, I began to abandon the use of a colourful palette or even muted tones of any other colours others than black and white... I wanted to focus just on black and white colour instead. There are artworks which showed an increased use of black and white colour. Such paintings are The Deep, and Yellow Islands.

Yellow Islands, 1952

The Deep, 1953

Thus, seeing from these two artworks, I have increasingly began to utilise more black and white colour while abandoning the colourful palette. This phase of development marks the last few productive years of my professional artist career period although I still continued to paint on my own leisure after that. My painting has changed from being semi-realistic to figurative and then to expressionistic in a period of around two decades. I believe I have reached the peak of my Abstract Expressionist development...