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A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed 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.
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- Pollock the Sculptor. Acclaimed for the lyrical drip technique he pioneered, it might come as a surprise to learn that, at the beginning of his career, Jackson Pollock was set more on sculpture than painting.
- Pollock and Picasso. Jackson Pollock didn’t just happen across the techniques that led Life magazine to ask in 1949 ‘Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?’
- On Abstract Expressionism. The artistic movement that Pollock was most associated with, indeed in the vanguard of, was abstract expressionism. Best characterized by gestural mark-making, it calls to mind an artist channelling their unconscious directly onto canvas, or, as Pollock said: ‘The modern artist … is working and expressing an inner world – in other words expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.’
- The Namuth Effect. Some of the most memorable images taken of Pollock, and perhaps of any artist at work, were those gleaned from photo shoots and filming sessions undertaken with the photographer Hans Namuth in 1950.
Find out who is Jackson Pollock, his paintings and his abstract art, with this art homework guide, includes facts for kids about abstract expressionism.
Thanks to the mediation of Alfonso Ossorio, a close friend of Pollock, and the art historian Michel Tapié, the young gallery owner Paul Facchetti, from March 7, 1952, managed to realize the first exhibition of Pollock's works from 1948 to 1951 [21] in his Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris and in Europe. [22]
Jun 30, 2015 · In 1951 he abandoned colour, and painted a series of disturbing pictures in black paint on bare canvas. These ‘black pourings’ from the basis of this remarkable exhibition, at Tate Liverpool ...
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) Tate. (b Cody, Wyo., 28 Jan. 1912; d East Hampton, Long Island, NY, 11 Aug. 1956). American painter, the commanding figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
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Jul 6, 2015 · A must see exhibition, has opened at Tate Liverpool, displaying the powerful drawings, paintings, screen prints and sculpture by the New York Abstract Expressionist artist Jackson Pollock. The show focuses on the late paintings, particularly the black pourings made between 1951 – 1953.
