Research reveals this famous American expressionist left hidden messages in his paintings

A new study by psychiatry professor Stephen M. Stahl shows that American expressionist Jackson Pollock left hidden messages in his paintings. According to the doctor, they are evidence of his bipolar disorder.

The researcher is not sure whether one of the prominent representatives of abstract expressionism, which influenced the art of the second half of the 20th century, made these messages consciously. However, the study showed that he included some images in his pre-drip paintings that could tell specific stories, phys.org writes, citing a research article published by CNS Spectrums.

According to Professor Stahl, certain images repeatedly appear in the artist's paintings. In particular, booze bottles, images of himself, monkeys, clowns, elephants, etc. And this, according to the scientist, is evidence that Pollock encrypted these images in his paintings, consciously or not.

"His remarkable ability to hide these images in plain sight may have been part of his creative genius, and could also have been enhanced by the endowment of extraordinary visual spatial skills that have been described in some bipolar patients," the doctor explained.

Chronic and severe mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder, can be associated with creativity and genius, with good outcomes, especially with effective treatment.

Since the creation of these works, viewing the images in Pollock's drip paintings has been both a popular pastime and a controversy. Some art critics emphasize the formal elements of the artist's works, arguing that there is nothing hidden there, and that every observer can find everything they are looking for within the abstract lines and composition of the paintings. That is, perhaps Pollock's paintings simply encourage viewers to project their own emotions onto these works and that no real images are hidden between the lines.

However, Dr. Stahl says that seeing an encrypted image in a drip painting once can be a coincidence. Moreover, seeing the same image in different paintings twice can still be called a coincidence, but if you see it three or more times - as in the case of bottles of booze, monkeys or many other subjects and objects in Pollock's paintings - it is unlikely that these images are randomly provoked perceptions without any basis in reality.

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