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The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
Paul Jackson Pollock (/ ˈ p ɒ l ə k /; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter.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.
The initial studies of fractal expressionism focused on the poured paintings by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), whose work has traditionally been associated with the abstract expressionist movement. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Pollock's patterns had previously been referred to as “natural” and “organic”, inviting speculation by John Briggs in 1992 ...
A $10 million dollar Jackson Pollock painting has been discovered and the Arizona owner had no idea they were holding something so valuable in their attic.
Helen A. Harrison (born December 4, 1943) is an American art historian, curator, journalist and author.Harrison was the longtime director (1990-2024) of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, the former home and studio of the Abstract Expressionist artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner in East Hampton, New York.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. [2]
One: Number 31, 1950 is a painting by American painter Jackson Pollock, from 1950. It is one of the largest and most prominent examples of the artist's Abstract Expressionist drip-style works. [1] The work was owned by a private collector until 1968 when it was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, where it has been displayed ...
The New Deal Art projects. An Anthology of Memoirs. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1972. ISBN 0-87474-113-0; Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works coauthored with Eugene Thaw, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1978; Jackson Pollock: The Black Pourings, 1951 to 1953. Institute of Contemporary ...