Second Encounter of Jackson Pollock's 'Summertime Number 9A'

Viewing this painting a second time, the first thing that struck me was the length of it. On my first encounter I had been so absorbed by the large drip-like gestures that it hadn’t come to mind the odd size if the painting. It’s not the general kind of rectangle canvas, but instead isn’t very tall at all, but is extremely long lengthways. It reminds me of a letterbox shape. One other thing I hadn’t really paid much attention to the first time was the smaller marks. There were small green marks all over the painting. Also, I began to notice the grey dripped gestures beneath the black ones. As I stood there looking at this amazing piece, I had just noticed that this painting had more layers than I cared to notice on my first encounter.