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Jackson Pollock’s monumental painting Blue poles is recognised today as an Abstract Expressionist masterpiece. The work is a prime example of his unique approach to action painting. He started Blue poles in 1952 by working on the floor of his studio, a converted barn on Long Island in the United States of America.
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- What Was Pollock Trying to do?
- Is It A Masterpiece?
Look: Literally, what is in front of you? Just say what you see. OK, it’s a painting. It’s made of paint, splashed on a canvas. How does it look? The paint has been thrown randomly onto the canvas, not applied carefully with a brush. There’s dripped lines of light blue paint, red, green, silver and, in fact, there’s a bare footprint visible on the ...
Blue poles is a painting, but not a conventional “easel painting”. The footprint and the paint not running down the canvas tell us it was painted flat on the floor. It was not made with brushes or intended to represent identifiable things in the world. Clearly, Pollock rejected that historical idea of painting – the small canvas on the easel on whi...
From an art historian’s point of view, whether or not Blue poles is a “masterpiece” depends mostly on how you regard Pollock and Abstract Expressionism. Certainly Pollock was a legend in his own lifetime, and Blue poles was produced at the height of his career. In August 1949, LIFE magazine asked, “is he the greatest living painter in the United St...
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Jun 22, 2023 · 1. Fifty years ago, on July 16, 1973, the director of the yet-to-open National Gallery of Australia, James Mollison, spent $1.3 million of taxpayers’ money to acquire Blue poles, by abstract ...
That’s very unusual.”. By the time he bought the painting, he paid $32.000 for it; but when, in 1973, Heller agreed to sell his beloved Blue Poles to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the painting had a price tag of US $2 million, equivalent to A $ 1.3 million. Jackson Pollock: Blue poles.
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Sep 10, 2018 · Visitors look at Blue poles (1952) during its trip to London for an abstract expressionism exhibition in 2016. ... telling him Jackson Pollock’s Blue poles was for sale. New York property mogul ...
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212.1 cm × 488.9 cm (83.5 in × 192.5 in) Location. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952 is an abstract expressionist painting by American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the gallery's major paintings.
Dec 1, 2021 · Have you heard of the artwork Blue Poles? And did you know that it was once one of the most controversial paintings in Australia? In August 1973, the Whitlam Government purchased Jackson Pollock's 'Blue Poles' for $1.3 million, the most ever spent on a US artwork at the time.
