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Jackson Pollock
American artist Jackson Pollock dribbling sand on a painting while working in his studio in East Hampton, New York.
Jackson Pollock began his "poured" period in 1947, a technique involving dripping or pouring paint onto a flat canvas to record the force of his physical gestures.1
A significant series of paintings from this period includes:
- 1947: Full Fathom Five and Lucifer1
- 1948: Summertime1
- 1949: Number Ten, 19491
- 1950: One, Autumn Rhythm, Lavender Mist (also known as Number 1, 1950), and the black-and-white Number Thirty-two, 195012
In 1951 and 1952, Pollock shifted to working primarily in black enamel on unsized canvas, producing works such as Number Twenty-three, 1951/āFrogmanā, Echo (1951), and Number Seven, 1952 (1952). He returned to color and mural scale in 1952 with Convergence and Blue Poles. His final series of major works in 1953 included Portrait and a Dream, Easter and the Totem, Ocean Greyness, and The Deep.1