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george13walters: JACKSON POLLOCK - “GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET”, 1943 - OIL ON CANVAS. SFMOMA PERMANENT COLLECTION. This work is currently on view, and can be viewed online here.

george13walters:

JACKSON POLLOCK - “GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET”, 1943 - OIL ON CANVAS. SFMOMA PERMANENT COLLECTION.

This work is currently on view, and can be viewed online here.

(via george13walters)

Another work for Pollock’s 100th birthday: Jackson Pollock, Untitled (1939-1940) | drawing | graphite and colored pencil on colored paper (via SFMOMA)

Another work for Pollock’s 100th birthday:

Jackson Pollock, Untitled (1939-1940) | drawing | graphite and colored pencil on colored paper


(via SFMOMA)

We want to wish a HUGE happy birthday to Jackson Pollock, who was born 100 years ago today. Jackson Pollock was one of the first American artists to achieve a worldwide reputation, and he became an icon of the abstract expressionist movement. He spent his childhood moving between farming communities in Arizona and Southern California. At 18, he moved to New York, where he studied art and painted for the Works Progress Administration. In 1939, Pollock entered psychoanalysis as treatment for his lifelong alcoholism, and his work of this period was heavily influenced by C.G. Jung’s theory of archetypal collective symbols. During the late 1940s, Pollock developed a groundbreaking abstract painting technique. He laid his large canvases on the floor and moved around them; rather than brushing on his paint, he poured it directly from the can or flung it in drips and spatters with a brush or stick. The resulting “all-over” paintings were an unmediated trace of his physical actions; they also did away with the artistic conventions of illusionistic depth and distinct figure and ground. Within a few years, however, and perhaps in rebellion against his tremendous critical success, Pollock began to re-introduce symbolic figures into his paintings. His life was perpetually marked by self-destructive behavior; he was killed in a car crash at the age of 44. Featured here: Pollock’s Guardians of the Secret (1943)

We want to wish a HUGE happy birthday to Jackson Pollock, who was born 100 years ago today.

Jackson Pollock was one of the first American artists to achieve a worldwide reputation, and he became an icon of the abstract expressionist movement. He spent his childhood moving between farming communities in Arizona and Southern California. At 18, he moved to New York, where he studied art and painted for the Works Progress Administration. In 1939, Pollock entered psychoanalysis as treatment for his lifelong alcoholism, and his work of this period was heavily influenced by C.G. Jung’s theory of archetypal collective symbols.

During the late 1940s, Pollock developed a groundbreaking abstract painting technique. He laid his large canvases on the floor and moved around them; rather than brushing on his paint, he poured it directly from the can or flung it in drips and spatters with a brush or stick. The resulting “all-over” paintings were an unmediated trace of his physical actions; they also did away with the artistic conventions of illusionistic depth and distinct figure and ground. Within a few years, however, and perhaps in rebellion against his tremendous critical success, Pollock began to re-introduce symbolic figures into his paintings. His life was perpetually marked by self-destructive behavior; he was killed in a car crash at the age of 44.

Featured here: Pollock’s Guardians of the Secret (1943)

Tomorrow marks 100 years of Jackson Pollock

Tomorrow marks 100 years of Jackson Pollock

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