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"The Deep" 1953 oil on canvas by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) at @centrepompidou the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Written near the painting: "The Deep" is one of the last paintings by Jackson Pollock, who died in 1956. For many years, the artist had explored the dripping technique, which involved pouring or dripping paint onto a canvas laid on the floor. In 1951, he reintroduced the human figure into his works, and once more explored the relationship between background and surface, as illustrated by "The Deep." The work is like a cloud of milky paint with a split at the center, which reveals a matt black depth highlighted with red. In this sense, it is reminiscent of the atmospheric sensations of contemporary painters like Mark Rothko. The result here is a singular work. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #pompidoucentre #pompidou #georgespompidoucenter #abstactpainting #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #thedeep (at Centre Pompidou)

"Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)" 1950 enamel on canvas by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) at @metmuseum the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written near the painting: In 1945, Pollock and his wife, the painter Lee Krasner, moved to a modest house near East Hampton, New York. Working in relative isolation in their small barn, Pollock began to develop a distinctive dripped or poured technique. Using simple sticks or paint stirrers and enamel house paint—sometimes poured right from the can—Pollock spun calligraphic lines of color directly onto raw canvas that lay unstretched on the floor. These interwoven skeins of paint are a record of the artist's movement around all sides of the canvas—which, in the muscular rhetoric of the critic Harold Rosenberg, had become "the arena in which to act." The abstract lines and large areas of raw canvas also trouble traditional artistic notions of figure and ground, illusionism and depth. One of the largest of his classic "drip" paintings, "Autumn Rhythm" was purchased by the Museum from Lee Krasner the year after Pollock's untimely death. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #themet #themetropolitanmuseumofart #enameloncanvas #anstractart #abstractexpressionism #abstractpainting #allover #actionpainting #autumnrhythm (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

"Pasiphaë" 1943 oil on canvas Jackson Pollock by (1912-1956) at @metmuseum the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written near the painting: Pollock incorporated two figures standing like sentinels at the left and right and a prostrate figure at the center into a complex field of arcane symbols and free-form abstraction. The composition manifests his interpretation of the Surrealistic practice of automatism, a technique of automatic mark-making intended to tap into the unconscious mind. Finished just after Pollock's 1943 exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's New York gallery, "Pasiphaë" is the largest of the painter's mythological-themes pictures of the mid-1940s. Originally named "Moby Dick," the artist retitled his painting before showing it in 1944 and after James Johnson Sweeney, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art related the story of the Cretan princess Pasiphaë, who gave birth to the half-man, half-bull Minotaur. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #pasiphae #abstractexpressionism #abstractpainting #themetropolitanmuseumofart #themet (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

"Untitled (Figure Composition)" ca. 1938-41 gouache on paper by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) at @metmuseum the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written near the painting: Two versions of this multifigure composition by Pollock survive in The Met collection: a study in graphite and color pencil and this gouache. The color palette, handling, and cruciform composition recall José Clemente Orozco's "Zapata," a painting Pollock might have encountered at the Museum's 1930 exhibition "Mexican Art," which opened a few months after Pollock joined New York's Art Students League. Unlike Orozco's dramatic scene of contemporary history, this work expresses human suffering in mythic terms. The central figure possesses a human face and a skull, a conventional sign of mortality. Carrying another figure over his shoulder, with a third draped limply across his right leg, the protagonist's struggle recalls the iconography of the Deluge from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #gouache #themetropolitanmuseumofart #themet #untitled (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

"Untitled" ca. late 1937-39 colored pencils on paper by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) at @metmuseum the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written near the drawing: In sketches from the late 1930s, Pollock explored old master compositions with methods learned from his teacher at the Art Student League, Thomas Hart Benton. From 1926 to 1927, Benton published a five-article series, "Mechanics of Form Organization in Painting," that demonstrated an analysis of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, El Greco, and others in terms of their "cubic forms." Pollock's brother, Charles, also a student of Benton, owned copies of these articles. Here, Pollock has sketched from Ruben's "Bath of Diana (1635-40) and reduced its composition to rhythmic linear movements and masses of dark and light. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #drawing #themetropolitanmuseumofart #themet #artstudentleague #peterpaulrubens #untitled (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

"Number 1 1950 (Lavender Mist)" 1950 oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) at @ngadc the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #abstractexpressionism #abstractart #abstractpainting #nga #nationalgalleryofart #lavendermist #number1 (at National Gallery Of Art - East Building)

"War" 1947 ink and colored pencils on paper by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) at @metmuseum the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written near the drawing: Pollock's "War" is the only drawing he ever titled. Although it dates to 1947, the drawing incorporates motifs from complex compositions he produced a few years earlier. The artist conveys the monstrous destruction of war through fierce graphic execution and imagery, much of which is camouflaged by energetic clusters of lines thickened and highlighted with flashes of red and yellow pencil. A human figure and a bull are flung onto a raging pyre of human debris, while to the right the crucifixion of a hooded figure is suggested. Some of Pollock's imagery may be traced to Pablo Picasso's 1937 antiwar mural "Guernica," which was exhibited in New York between 1939 and 1940. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #drawing #war #themetropolitanmuseumofart #themet #antiwar (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

"Untitled" 1944 oil on canvas by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) at @guggenheim_venice the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #oiloncanvas #oilpainting #peggyguggenheimcollection #abstractart #abstractpainting #untitled (at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection)