Jackson Pollock

1912–1956 · United States · Abstract Expressionism

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was noted for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. Wikipedia

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Drips, splatters and poured skeins of paint across the whole canvas, no centre and no figures.

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“No. 5, 1948”, 1948
“Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)”, 1950 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“One: Number 31, 1950”, 1950 — Museum of Modern Art
“Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)”, 1949
“Mural on Indian Red Ground”, 1950 — Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
“Mural”, 1943
“Blue poles (Number 11)”, 1952
“Going West”, 1935
“Number 3”, 1949
“Echo (Number 25)”, 1951
“Lucifer”, 1947
“Number 19”, 1948
“Convergence (Number 10)”, 1952
“Summertime: Number 9A”, 1948
“Number 7 (Out of the Web)”, 1949
“Moon Woman”, 1942
“The She-Wolf”, 1943
“Full fathom five”, 1947
“Male and Female”, 1942
“The Tea Cup”, 1946
“Easter and the Totem”, 1953
“The key”, 1946
“Eyes in the Heat”, 1946
“Number 8”, 1949
“Shimmering Substance”, 1946
“Number 32”, 1950
“Blue (Moby Dick)”, 1943
“Composition with Pouring II”, 1943
“Pattern”, 1945
“Free Form”, 1946
“Galaxy”, 1947
“Number 32”, 1947
“Number 2”, 1951
“The Deep”, 1953

Jackson Pollock

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