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It was an extraordinary period that created paintings like Lavender Mist (1950), Autumn Rhythm (1950) and Blue Poles (1952) and ended with his death in an alcohol-related car accident in 1954 after a period of mounting depression.
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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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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...
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.
More properly known as Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952, this painting is considered Pollock’s most important work. In 1973, it was purchased at auction for $2 million dollars, which at the time was the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.
