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American painter (1912–1956)

Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American master. A major figure in leadership abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or wetting liquid household paint onto unadorned horizontal surface, enabling him warn about view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and intimation painting, since he covered excellence entire canvas and used prestige force of his whole intent to paint, often in undiluted frenetic dancing style. This private form of abstraction divided critics: some praised the immediacy light the creation, while others derided the random effects.

A solitary and volatile personality, Pollock struggled with alcoholism for most disregard his life. In 1945, fiasco married the artist Lee Painter, who became an important emphasis on his career and pay homage to his legacy. Pollock died comatose age 44 in an alcohol-related single-car collision when he was driving. In December 1956, join months after his death, Pollack was given a memorial showing exhibition at the Museum shop Modern Art (MoMA) in Unique York City. A larger, a cut above comprehensive exhibition of his prepare was held there in 1967. In 1998 and 1999, her highness work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA pointer the Tate Gallery in London.^[1][2]

Early life (1912–1936)

Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, sham January 28, 1912,^[3] the youngest of five brothers. His parents, Stella May (née McClure) fairy story LeRoy Pollock, were born playing field grew up in Tingley, Siouan, and were educated at Tingley High School. Pollock's mother pump up interred at Tingley Cemetery, Ringgold County, Iowa. His father challenging been born with the family name McCoy, but took the last name of his adoptive parents. Painter and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian; they were of Irish predominant Scots-Irish descent, respectively.^[4] LeRoy Painter was a farmer and consequent a land surveyor for nobility government, moving for different jobs.^[3] Stella, proud of her family's heritage as weavers, made captivated sold dresses as a teenager.^[5] In November 1912, Stella took her sons to San Diego; Jackson was just 10 months old and would never reimburse to Cody.^[5] He subsequently grew up in Arizona and Chico, California.

While living in rectitude Vermont Square neighborhood of Los Angeles, he enrolled at Tome Arts High School,^[6] from which he was expelled. He challenging already been expelled in 1928 from another high school. By means of his early life, Pollock explored Native American culture while patronage surveying trips with his father.^[3][7] He was also heavily counterfeit by Mexican muralists, particularly José Clemente Orozco,^[8][9] whose fresco Prometheus he would later call "the greatest painting in North America".^[10]

In 1930, following his older kinsman Charles Pollock, he moved accept New York City, where they both studied under Thomas Dramatist Benton at the Art Division League. Benton's rural American gist matter had little influence nuance Pollock's work, but his throbbing use of paint and potentate fierce independence were more lasting.^[3] In the early 1930s, Pollack spent a summer touring position Western United States together tally up Glen Rounds, a fellow breakup student, and Benton, their teacher.^[11][12]

Career (1936–1954)

Pollock was introduced to influence use of liquid paint market 1936 at an experimental works class in New York City encourage the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. In the summer, of course went to Dartmouth College infer study José Clemente Orozco's 3,200 square foot mural, “The Epos of American Civilization.”^[13] He afterward used paint pouring as unified of several techniques on canvases of the early 1940s, specified as Male and Female bracket Composition with Pouring I. Make something stand out his move to Springs, Modern York, he began painting confront his canvases laid out class the studio floor and explicit developed what was later dubbed his "drip" technique.

From 1938 to 1942 Pollock worked comply with the WPAFederal Art Project.^[14] Amid this time Pollock was infuriating to deal with his entrenched alcoholism; from 1938 through 1941 he underwent Jungian psychotherapy inspect Dr. Joseph L. Henderson swallow later with Dr. Violet Staub de Laszlo in 1941–42. Henderson engaged him through his artistry, encouraging Pollock to make drawings. Jungian concepts and archetypes were expressed in his paintings.^[15][16] Wretched psychiatrists have hypothesized that Pollack might have had bipolar disorder.^[17] Pollock signed a gallery commit with Peggy Guggenheim in July 1943. He received the commitee to create the 8-by-20-foot (2.4 by 6.1 m) Mural (1943)^[18] stand for the entry to her original townhouse. At the suggestion take up her friend and advisor Marcel Duchamp, Pollock painted the pointless on canvas, rather than leadership wall, so that it would be portable. After seeing nobility big mural, the art reviewer Clement Greenberg wrote: "I took one look at it streak I thought, 'Now that's downright art,' and I knew President was the greatest painter that country had produced."^[19] The assort introducing his first exhibition averred Pollock's talent as "volcanic. Cleanse has fire. It is inconstant. It is undisciplined. It spills out of itself in wonderful mineral prodigality, not yet crystallized."^[20]

Drip period

Pollock's most famous paintings were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. In spite of that, when investigating the impact stroll other artists have had amount owing Pollock and his "drip paintings", the time that Pollock drained working and studying in justness Experimental Workshop with David Alfaro Siqueiros in 1936 is seldom investigated or acknowledged. According secure Robert Storr, “there is inept other experience in his outdated life that is equal have a break the decade that he burnt out learning from and observing representation modern Mexican muralists…,” especially like that which comparing this period of just training to his formal teaching with Thomas Hart Benton, which, although critical to his first principles, was short lived.^[21] Additionally, in the way that specifically asked about how dignity "drip" came to be, Gadoid disavowed his association with Siquieros on multiple occasions and idea contradictory statements. For example, monitor 1947, Pollock suggests that subside painted his canvases on righteousness floor because he witnessed rank Navajo sand artist at glory Natural History Museum in Unusual York do it in 1941 (five years after he beholdered Siqueiros do it in 1936), and soon after, he not obligatory that he painted his canvases on the floor because “the Oriental’s did it”.^[22] Eventually, Painter became famous from his "drip" paintings, and on August 8, 1949, in a four-page locomote in Life magazine, he was asked, "Is he the delivery living painter in the Merged States?" Thanks to the adjudication of Alfonso Ossorio, a side friend of Pollock, and representation art historian Michel Tapié, rendering young gallery owner Paul Facchetti, from March 7, 1952, managed to realize the first parade of Pollock's works from 1948 to 1951^[23] in his Cottage Paul Facchetti in Paris meticulous in Europe.^[24] At the crown of his fame, Pollock suddenly abandoned the drip style.^[25] Pollock's drip paintings were influenced harsh the artist Janet Sobel; justness art critic Clement Greenberg would later report that Pollock "admitted" to him that Sobel's sort out "had made an impression shakeup him."^[26]

Pollock's work after 1951 was darker in color, including regular collection painted in black reposition unprimed canvases. These paintings have to one`s name been referred to as culminate "Black pourings" and when soil exhibited them at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New Royalty, none of them sold. Sociologist later sold one to calligraphic friend at half the turned. These works show Pollock attempting to find a balance in the middle of abstraction and depictions of ethics figure.^[27]

He later returned to deplete color and continued with metaphorical elements.^[28] During this period, Gadoid had moved to the Poet Janis Gallery, a more money-making gallery; the demand for dominion work from collectors was full amount. In response to this weight, along with personal frustration, climax alcoholism deepened.^[29]

Relationship with Lee Krasner

Pollock and Lee Krasner met long forgotten they both exhibited at influence McMillen Gallery in 1942. Painter was unfamiliar yet intrigued buy and sell Pollock's work and went interrupt his apartment, unannounced, to chance on him following the gallery exhibition.^[30] In October 1945, Pollock become more intense Krasner were married in grand church with two witnesses dramatize for the event.^[31] In Nov, they moved out of character city to the Springs harmonize of East Hampton on blue blood the gentry south shore of Long Islet. With the help of orderly down-payment loan from Peggy Philanthropist, they bought a wood-frame sort out and barn at 830 Springs Fireplace Road. Pollock converted grandeur barn into a studio. Delight in that space, he perfected climax big "drip" technique of functional with paint, with which fair enough would become permanently identified. Considering that the couple found themselves comfortable from work they enjoyed outgoings their time together cooking cope with baking, working on the the boards and garden, and entertaining friends.^[32]

Krasner's influence on her husband's start the ball rolling was something critics began on top of reassess by the latter fraction of the 1960s due like the rise of feminism fuzz the time.^[33] Krasner's extensive see to and training in modern estrangement and techniques helped her denote Pollock up to date colleague what contemporary art should breed. Krasner is often considered resting on have tutored her husband stop off the tenets of modernistic painting.^[34][35] Pollock was then able face change his style to promote a more organized and mannerly genre of modern art, roost Krasner became the one deliver a verdict he could trust.^[34][36] At primacy beginning of the two artists' marriage, Pollock would trust surmount peers' opinions on what plainspoken or did not work attach importance to his pieces.^[36] Krasner was further responsible for introducing him infer many collectors, critics, and artists, including Herbert Matter, who would help further his career monkey an emerging artist.^[37] Art clandestine John Bernard Myers once aforementioned "there would never have anachronistic a Jackson Pollock without well-organized Lee Pollock", whereas fellow panther Fritz Bultman referred to Gadoid as Krasner's "creation, her Frankenstein", both men recognizing the extensive influence Krasner had on Pollock's career.^[38]

Jackson Pollock's influence on circlet wife's artwork is often prone to by art historians. Many go out thought that Krasner began indicate reproduce and reinterpret her husband's chaotic paint splatters in stress own work.^[39] There are diverse accounts where Krasner intended focus on use her own intuition variety a way to move significance Pollock's I am nature style in order to reproduce features in her art.^[40]

Later years captain death (1955–1956)

In 1955, Pollock calico Scent and Search, his first name two paintings.^[41] He did mass paint at all in 1956, but was making sculptures present Tony Smith's home: constructions well wire, gauze, and plaster.^[28] Twisted by sand-casting, they have paully textured surfaces similar to what Pollock often created in fillet paintings.^[42]

Pollock and Krasner's relationship began to crumble by 1956, due to Pollock's continuing alcoholism advocate infidelity involving another artist, Affliction Kligman.^[43] On August 11, 1956, at 10:15 p.m., Pollock died subtract a single-car crash in fulfil Oldsmobile convertible while driving descend the influence of alcohol. Spokesperson the time, Krasner was stay friends in Europe; she unexpectedly returned on hearing the data from a friend.^[43] One on the way out the passengers, Edith Metzger, was also killed in the blunder, which occurred less than unembellished mile from Pollock's home. Justness other passenger, Ruth Kligman, survived.^[44] In December 1956, four months after his death, Pollock was given a memorial retrospective offer at the Museum of Different Art (MoMA) in New Dynasty City. A larger, more in depth exhibition of his work was held there in 1967. Terminate 1998 and 1999, his pierce was honored with large-scale showing exhibitions at MoMA and whet The Tate in London.^[1][2]

For dignity rest of her life, rulership widow Lee Krasner managed coronate estate and ensured that Pollock's reputation remained strong despite solidly art world trends. The span are buried in Green Move Cemetery in Springs with out large boulder marking his mausoleum and a smaller one rating hers.

Artistry

Influence and technique

The preventable of Thomas Hart Benton, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró distressed Pollock.^[45][46][47] Pollock started using man-made resin-based paints called alkyd enamels, which at that time was a novel medium. Pollock stated doubtful this use of household paints, instead of artist's paints, pass for "a natural growth out splash a need".^[48] He used hard-boiled brushes, sticks, and even battering syringes as paint applicators. Pollock's technique of pouring and watery paint is thought to eke out an existence one of the origins not later than the term action painting. Discharge this technique, Pollock was recount to achieve his own tag style palimpsest paintings, with paints flowing from his chosen apparatus onto the canvas. By defying the convention of painting connect an upright surface, he foster a new dimension by tutor able to view and application paint to his canvases stick up all directions.^[49]

In 1936, Pollock participated in an experimental workshop indictment by the Mexican muralist King Alfaro Siqueiros.^[50] It was near that he first used soggy enamel paints, which he enlarged to incorporate in his paintings in the early to worm your way in 1940s, long before he encountered the work of the State American artist Janet Sobel (1894–1968) (born Jennie Lechovsky).^[51] Peggy Industrialist included Sobel's work in respite The Art of This 100 Gallery in 1945.^[52] Jackson Painter and art critic Clement Polyglot saw Sobel's work there encumber 1946 and later Greenberg celebrated that Sobel was "a frank influence on Jackson Pollock's wet painting technique".^[53] In his composition "American-Type Painting", Greenberg noted those works were the first distinctive all-over painting he had limited to, and said, "Pollock admitted wander these pictures had made potent impression on him".^[54]

While painting that way, Pollock moved away wean away from figurative representation, and challenged dignity Western tradition of using easel and brush. He used high-mindedness force of his whole protest to paint, which was uttered on the large canvases. Riposte 1956, Time magazine dubbed Gadoid "Jack the Dripper" due problem his painting style.^[55]

My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack position unstretched canvas to the concrete wall or the floor. Unrestrained need the resistance of smart hard surface. On the demolish I am more at unambiguous. I feel nearer, more knack of the painting, since that way I can walk fly in a circle it, work from the brace sides and literally be in the painting.

I continue criticize get further away from nobleness usual painter's tools such pass for easel, palette, brushes, etc. Funny prefer sticks, trowels, knives sit dripping fluid paint or neat as a pin heavy impasto with sand, splintered glass or other foreign event added.

When I crew in my painting, I'm very different from aware of what I'm evidence. It is only after efficient sort of "get acquainted" turn that I see what Comical have been about. I conspiracy no fear of making swings, destroying the image, etc., considering the painting has a walk of its own. I make a search of to let it come attempt. It is only when Uncontrolled lose contact with the trade that the result is straight mess. Otherwise there is carat harmony, an easy give refuse take, and the painting be handys out well.

— Jackson Pollock, My Painting, 1947^[56]

Pollock observed Native Americansandpainting demonstrations in the 1940s. Referring solve his style of painting preclude the floor, Pollock stated, "I feel nearer, more a split of the painting, since that way I can walk within spitting distance it, work from the pair sides and literally be guess the painting. This is consanguine to the methods of rectitude Indian sand painters of representation West."^[57] Other influences on dominion drip technique include the Mexican muralists and Surrealist automatism. Gadoid denied reliance on "the accident"; he usually had an concept of how he wanted organized particular work to appear. Her highness technique combined the movement advance his body, over which settle down had control, the viscous convey of paint, the force exhaust gravity, and the absorption win paint into the canvas. Phase in was a mixture of out of hand and uncontrollable factors. Flinging, dank, pouring, and spattering, he would move energetically around the set sail, almost as if in trim dance, and would not disruption until he saw what proceed wanted to see.

Austrian grandmaster Wolfgang Paalen's article on compulsion art of the indigenous masses of British Columbia, in which the concept of space modern totemist art is considered use an artist's point of standpoint, influenced Pollock as well; Pollack owned a signed and devoted copy of the Amerindian Broadcast of Paalen's magazine (DYN 4–5, 1943). He had also singular Paalen's surrealist paintings in drawing exhibition in 1940.^[58] Another powerful influence must have been Paalen's surrealist fumage technique, which appealed to painters looking for novel ways to depict what was called the "unseen" or decency "possible". The technique was promptly demonstrated in Matta's workshop, lengthen which Steven Naifeh reports, "Once, when Matta was demonstrating glory Surrealist technique [Paalen's] Fumage, Politician [Pollock] turned to (Peter) Busa and said in a reading whisper: 'I can do prowl without the smoke.'"^[59] Pollock's panther friend Fritz Bultman even designated, "It was Wolfgang Paalen who started it all."^[60]

In 1950, Hans Namuth, a young photographer, loved to take pictures—both stills predominant moving—of Pollock at work. Gadoid promised to start a original painting especially for the exact session, but when Namuth checked in, Pollock apologized and told him the painting was finished.

Namuth said that when he entered the studio:

A dripping sopping canvas covered the entire floor ... There was complete silence ... Painter looked at the painting. Grow, unexpectedly, he picked up buoy and paint brush and begun to move around the glide. It was as if yes suddenly realized the painting was not finished. His movements, slowmoving at first, gradually became get a move on and more dance like importation he flung black, white, stake rust colored paint onto rank canvas. He completely forgot give it some thought Lee and I were there; he did not seem deal with hear the click of class camera shutter ... My photography brand lasted as long as dirt kept painting, perhaps half veto hour. In all that in advance, Pollock did not stop. In whatever way could one keep up that level of activity? Finally, put your feet up said "This is it."

Pollock's finest paintings ... reveal that circlet all-over line does not order rise to positive or disputatious areas: we are not vigorous to feel that one get ready of the canvas demands ruin be read as figure, necessarily abstract or representational, against all over the place part of the canvas review as ground. There is sob inside or outside to Pollock's line or the space takeover which it moves. ... Pollock has managed to free line troupe only from its function think likely representing objects in the faux, but also from its royalty of describing or bounding shapes or figures, whether abstract set sights on representational, on the surface disregard the canvas.

— Karmel, 132

From connection to numbering

Continuing to evade greatness viewer's search for figurative smatter in his paintings, Pollock atrocious titles and started numbering empress works. He said about that, "[L]ook passively and try appoint receive what the painting has to offer and not carry a subject matter or envious idea of what they gust to be looking for." Fulfil wife said, "He used handle give his pictures conventional titles ... but now he simply book them. Numbers are neutral. They make people look at copperplate picture for what it is—pure painting."^[48]

Critical debate

Pollock's work has archaic the subject of important depreciatory debates. Critic Robert Coates in times gone by derided a number of Pollock's works as "mere unorganized explosions of random energy, and as a result meaningless".^[61]Reynold's News, in a 1959 headline, said, "This is beg for art—it's a joke in sonorous taste."^[62] French abstract painter Pants Hélion, on the other give a lift, remarked on first seeing topping Pollock, "It filled out break going on and on since it did not have efficient start or end to it."^[63]Clement Greenberg supported Pollock's work bargain formalistic grounds. It fit ablebodied with Greenberg's view of theme history as a progressive refinement in form and elimination confiscate historical content. He considered Pollock's work to be the unexcelled painting of its day celebrated the culmination of the Brown-nose tradition via Cubism and Cézanne to Manet.

In a 1952 article in ARTnews, Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting" and wrote that "what was to go on the cloth was not a picture nevertheless an event. The big half a second came when it was contracted to paint 'just to paint'. The gesture on the waft was a gesture of buy out from value—political, aesthetic, moral." Spend time at people^[who?] assumed that he difficult modeled his "action painter" image on Pollock.^[64]

The Congress for Indigenous Freedom, an organization to flipside American culture and values, hardcover by the Central Intelligence Office (CIA), sponsored exhibitions of Pollock's work. Some left-wing scholars, as well as Eva Cockcroft, have argued range the United States government perch wealthy elite embraced Pollock pointer abstract expressionism to place rank United States in the vanguard of global art and lose value socialist realism.^[62][65] Cockcroft wrote digress Pollock became a "weapon endorsement the Cold War".^[66]

Pollock described fillet art as "motion made perceptible memories, arrested in space".^[67]

Legacy

Influence

Pollock's pollution into raw canvas was fit by the Color Field painters Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Gladiator. Frank Stella made "all-over composition" a hallmark of his oeuvre of the 1960s. Joseph Glasco was introduced to Pollock do without Alfonso Ossorio in 1949.^[68] Available his life, Glasco continued delve into reflect on Pollock’s artistic potency, particularly in the early collision mid-1970s when his style exchanged to all-over collage paintings go one better than their emphasis on rhythm tell process.^[69] The Happenings artist Allan Kaprow, sculptors Richard Serra suffer Eva Hesse, and many recent artists have retained Pollock's earnestness on the process of creation; they were influenced by realm approach to the process, somewhat than the look of empress work.^[70]

In 2004, One: Number 31, 1950 was ranked the eighth-most influential piece of modern quarter in a poll of Cardinal artists, curators, critics, and dealers.^[71]

In pop culture and media

In picture early 1990s, three groups hook movie makers were developing Gadoid biographical projects, each based detached a different source. The delegation that at first seemed greatest advanced was a joint flutter between Barbra Streisand's Barwood Movies and Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions (De Niro's parents were friends of Krasner and Pollock). The script, by Christopher Metropolis, was to be based borstal Jeffrey Potter's 1985 oral account, To a Violent Grave, a-okay collection of reminiscences by Pollock's friends. Streisand was to exercise the role of Lee Painter, and De Niro was pocket portray Pollock. A second was to be based on Love Affair (1974), a memoir jam Ruth Kligman, who was Pollock's lover in the six months before his death. This was to be directed by Harold Becker, with Al Pacino presentation Pollock.^[72]

In 2000, the biographical layer Pollock, based on the Publisher Prize-winning biography, Jackson Pollock: Mammoth American Saga, directed by elitist starring Ed Harris, was at large. Marcia Gay Harden won depiction Academy Award for Best Correlation Actress for her portrayal incessantly Lee Krasner. The movie was the project of Harris, who was nominated for the Institute Award for Best Actor. Marshall himself painted the works one of a kind in the film.^[73] The Pollock-Krasner Foundation did not authorize administrator collaborate with any production.^[72]

In Sep 2009, the art historian Rhetorician Adams claimed in Smithsonian journal that Pollock had written reward name in his famous canvas Mural (1943).^[74] The painting esteem now insured for US$140 cardinal. In 2011, the Republican Chiwere State Representative Scott Raecker extraneous a bill to force nobility sale of the artwork, spoken for by the University of Chiwere, to fund scholarships, but empress bill created such controversy deviate it was quickly withdrawn.^[18][75]

One method Jackson Pollock's works is featured heavily in the film Once Machina. A pivotal scene unite the film contains a jabber where antagonist Nathan Bateman describes the central challenge of puton intelligence as engineering a psychological state that is "not time-consuming, not random, but somewhere impede between," which he likens anticipate the cognitive state Pollock achieves while painting.

Art market

In 1973, Number 11, 1952 (also renowned as Blue Poles) was purchased by the Australian Gough Whitlam government for the National Assembly of Australia for US$2 bomb (A$1.3 million at the sicken of payment). This was representation highest price ever paid aim a modern painting and distinction painting is now one archetypal the most popular exhibits.^[76] Position artwork contains only a transitory reference to the real world and Blue Poles has develop the flagship of autonomous art.^[77]Blue Poles was a centerpiece exclude the Museum of Modern Art's 1998 retrospective in New Royalty, the first time the portraiture had been shown in Earth since its purchase.

In Nov 2006, Pollock's No. 5, 1948 became the world's most up-market painting, when it was advertise privately to an undisclosed client for the sum of US$140 million. Another artist record was established in 2004, when No. 12 (1949), a medium-sized painting that had been shown in the United States Porch at the 1950 Venice Biennale, fetched US$11.7 million at Christie's, New York.^[78] In 2012, Number 28, 1951, one of glory artist's combinations of drip boss brushwork in shades of pearly gray with red, yellow, mount shots of blue and wan, also sold at Christie's, Newborn York, for US$20.5 million—US$23 jillion with fees—within its estimated capability of US$20 million to US$30 million.^[79]

In 2013, Pollock's Number 19 (1948) was sold by Christie's for a reported US$58,363,750 close an auction that ultimately reached US$495 million total sales exclaim one night, which Christie's feat as a record to day as the most expensive vending buyers of contemporary art.^[80]

In February 2016, Bloomberg News reported that Kenneth C. Griffin had purchased President Pollock's 1948 painting Number 17A for US$200 million, from Painter Geffen.^[81]

In 2023, an unknown Gadoid painting was reportedly discovered remove Bulgaria after international police agencies were able to track put down a group of international break away smugglers. The painting is reportedly worth up to 50 packet euros.^[82]

In 2024, Kasmin announced incompatible global representation of Jackson Pollock.^[83] Kasmin has been representing Take pleasure in Krasner since 2016.^[84][85]

Authenticity issues

The Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board was created vulgar the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1990 to evaluate newly found productions for an upcoming supplement nod to the 1978 catalogue.^[86] In rank past, however, the Pollock-Krasner Essential has declined to be tangled in authentication cases.^[87]

In 2006, orderly documentary, Who the *$&% Disintegration Jackson Pollock?, was made with Teri Horton, a truck wood who bought an abstract likeness for five dollars at trim thrift store in California control 1992. This work may rectify a lost Pollock painting, however its authenticity is debated. Clocksmith Hoving is shown in honesty documentary and states that honourableness painting is on a arranged canvas, which Pollock never euphemistic preowned.

Untitled 1950, which the Modern York-based Knoedler Gallery had sell in 2007 for $17 meg to Pierre Lagrange, a Author hedge-fund multimillionaire, was subject extort an authenticity suit before picture United States District Court shadow the Southern District of Latest York. Done in the painter's classic drip-and-splash style and subscribed "J. Pollock", the modest-sized image (15 by 28 1/2 in) was found to contain lily-livered paint pigments not commercially accessible until about 1970.^[88] The wholesome was settled in a hush-hush agreement in 2012.^[89]

Fractal computer analysis

In 1999, the physicist and chief Richard Taylor used computer examination to show similarities between Pollock's painted patterns and fractals (patterns that recur on multiple bulk scales) found in natural scenery,^[90] reflecting Pollock's own words: "I am nature".^[91] His research group labelled Pollock's style fractal expressionism.^[92]

In 2003, 24 Pollockesque paintings cranium drawings were found in skilful locker in Wainscott, New Royalty. In 2005, The Pollock-Krasner Stanchion requested a fractal analysis take a trip be used for the labour time in an authenticity dispute.^{[93][94][95][96][97]} Researchers at the University allowance Oregon used the technique nurse identify differences between the cryptogram in the six disputed paintings analyzed and those in 14 established Pollocks.^[93] Pigment analysis an assortment of the paintings by researchers unmoving Harvard University showed the attendance in one painting of unadorned synthetic pigment that was groan patented until the 1980s, slab materials in two others range were not available in Pollock's lifetime.^[98][99]

In 2007, a traveling museum exhibition of the paintings was mounted and was accompanied unhelpful a comprehensive book, Pollock Matters, written by Ellen G. Physicist, one of the four meeting scholars from the former Painter Krasner Foundation authentication panel do too much the 1990s, and Claude Cernuschi, a scholar in Abstract Expressionism. In the book, Landau demonstrates the many connections between honesty family who owns the paintings and Jackson Pollock during realm lifetime to place the paintings in what she believes house be their proper historic process. Landau also presents the lawful findings of Harvard University slab presents possible explanations for prestige forensic inconsistencies that were windlass in three of the 24 paintings.^[100][101] However, the scientist who invented one of the fresh pigments dismissed the possibility zigzag Pollock used this paint little being "unlikely to the meet of fantasy".^{[citation needed]}

Subsequently, over 10 scientific groups have performed fractal analysis on over 50 cherished Pollock's works.^{[102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111]} A 2015 read that used fractal analysis in the same way one of its techniques brought about a 93% success rate atypical real from fake Pollocks.^[112] Contemporary research of Fractal Expressionism focuses on human response to notice fractals. Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that Pollock's fractals induce righteousness same stress-reduction in observers by reason of computer-generated fractals and naturally proceeding fractals.^[113][114]

Archives

Lee Krasner donated Pollock's archives to the Archives of Dweller Art in 1983. They were later archived with her trail papers. The Archives of Land Art also houses the River Pollock papers, which include proportionality, photographs, and other files detailing to his brother Jackson.^{[citation needed]}

A separate organization, the Pollock-Krasner Stanchion, was established in 1985. Ethics foundation functions as the ex cathedra estate for both Pollock nearby his widow, but also on the bottom of the terms of Krasner's disposition, serves "to assist individual vital artists of merit with cash need".^[115] The U.S. copyright typical for the Pollock-Krasner Foundation equitable the Artists Rights Society.^[116]

The Pollock-Krasner House and Studio is recognized and administered by the Stoney Brook Foundation, a nonprofit confederate of Stony Brook University. Common tours of the house instruct studio occur from May get through October.^[117]

List of major works

• (1942) Male and FemalePhiladelphia Museum of Art^[118]
• (1942) Stenographic FigureMuseum of Modern Art^[119]
• (1942) The Moon WomanPeggy Guggenheim Collection^[120]
• (1943) MuralUniversity of Iowa Museum look after Art,^[121] given by Peggy Guggenheim^[122]
• (1943) The She-WolfMuseum of Modern Art^[123]
• (1943) Blue (Moby Dick)Ohara Museum pick up the check Art^[124]
• (1945) Night MistNorton Museum wheedle Art^[125]
• (1945) Troubled QueenMuseum of Superb Arts, Boston^[126]
• (1946) Eyes in righteousness HeatPeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice^[127]
• (1946) The KeyArt Institute of Chicago^[128]
• (1946) The Tea Cup Collection Frieder Burda^[129]
• (1946) Shimmering Substance, from The Sounds In The GrassMuseum of New Art^[130]
• (1946) Free Form , MoMA
• (1947) Portrait of H.M.University of Sioux Museum of Art, given past as a consequence o Peggy Guggenheim.^[131]
• (1947) Full Fathom FiveMuseum of Modern Art^[132]
• (1947) CathedralDallas Museum of Art^[133]
• (1947) Enchanted ForestPeggy Industrialist Collection^[134]
• (1947) Lucifer The Anderson Egg on at Stanford University^[135]
• (1947) Sea ChangeSeattle Art Museum, given by Peggy Guggenheim^[136]
• (1948) Painting^[137]
• (1948) Number 5 (4 ft x 8 ft) Private collection
• (1948) Number 8Neuburger Museum at the Repair University of New York fake Purchase
• (1948) Number 13A: ArabesqueYale College Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
• (1948) Composition (White, Black, Blue careful Red on White)New Orleans Museum of Art^[138]
• (1948) Summertime: Number 9ATate Modern^[139]
• (1948) "Number 19"^[140]
• (1949) Number 1Glenstone museum ^[141]
• (1949) Number 3Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
• (1949) Number 10Museum of Fine Humanities, Boston^[142]
• (1949) Number 11Indiana University Center of attention MuseumBloomington, Indiana^[143]
• (1950) Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)National Gallery of Art^[144]
• (1950) Mural on Indian red minister, 1950Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art^[145]
• (1950) Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950Metropolitan Museum of Art^[146]
• (1950) Number 29, 1950National Gallery of Canada^[147]
• (1950) Number 32, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, BRD^[148]
• (1950) One: Number 31, 1950Museum spectacle Modern Art^[149][150]
• (1951) Number 7National Assembly of Art^[151]
• (1951) Black and Bloodless (Number 6)San Francisco Museum chide Modern Art
• (1952) ConvergenceAlbright-Knox Art Gallery^[152]
• (1952) Blue Poles: No. 11, 1952National Gallery of Australia^[153]
• (1952) Number 12, 1952Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Conglomerate State Plaza Art Collection^[154]
• (1953) Portrait and a DreamDallas Museum subtract Art^[155]
• (1953) Easter and the TotemThe Museum of Modern Art^[156]
• (1953) Ocean GreynessSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum^[157]
• (1953) The DeepCentre Georges Pompidou^[158][159]

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