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Number 1, 1948 by Jackson Pollock. Number 1, 1948 is a masterpiece of the "drip," or pouring, technique, the radical method that Pollock contributed to Abstract Expressionism. Moving around an expanse of canvas laid on the floor, Pollock would fling and pour ropes of paint across the surface.
Jackson Pollock. Number 1A, 1948. 1948. Oil and enamel paint on canvas. 68" x 8' 8" (172.7 x 264.2 cm). Purchase. 77.1950. © 2024 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting and Sculpture
National Gallery of Art Collection. Number One, 1950 (Lavender Mist) embodies the artistic breakthrough Jackson Pollock reached between 1947 and 1950. His method was based on his earlier experiments with dripping and splattering paint on ceramic, glass, and canvas on an easel.
Jackson Pollock’s Number 1A, 1948 shows how much paint can be “unrestricted, unexpected, uncontrolled” as we see it poured onto a canvas making lines that are assertive, and we also see a complexity of shapes, globs, pools of paint layered one on top of another.
Jul 18, 2013 · Executed in 1948, Number 1A is also the earliest of the three we’ve studied, exhibiting media and techniques that bridge Pollock’s earlier easel paintings and the poured works for which he’s most widely celebrated.
Though self-reflexive in nature, they readily inspire larger interpretations; the explosive, allover expanses of Number 1A, 1948 (1948) and One: Number 31, 1950 (1950) can be seen as registering a moment in time marked by both the thrill of space exploration and the threat of global atomic destruction.
No. 1. Jackson Pollock. Date: 1948. Style: Action painting. Period: Drip period. Genre: abstract. Media: oil, canvas. Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US. Share: Jackson Pollock. Famous works. Going West • 1934-1935. Mural • 1943. Number 5 • 1948. Number 8, (detail) • 1949. Number 3 • 1949. Number 1 (Lavender Mist) • 1950.
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