Jackson Pollock – Untitled (Bald Woman with Skeleton) (1938)

    Jackson Pollock was known as an American icon of post-world war II painting. This work, done during the war, demonstrates in the form of abstract expressionism the horrors and tragedy of war. One can see a nude, faceless woman leaning in despair over a large skeleton. She is surrounded by gruesome images of war. The painting is overflowing with criticism on the death of war and the pain it leaves behind to those who must endure the loss of loved ones.