American painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was the leading figure in abstract expressionism, a style that evolved after World War II and radicalized the history of American painting and modern art in general. Before World War II modern painting was...

"New needs need new techniques. The modern painter cannot express this age in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds its own technique." The new technique that became painter Jackson Pollock's signature style...

Museum of Modern Art, New York In the years between 1947 and 1950, a young painter whose work originated in a unique synthesis of Picasso's cubism, Miro's surrealism, Thomas Hart Benton's realism, and Native American art, forever changed the way paintings are...

JACKSON POLLOCK An American Saga. By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. Clarkson N. Potter. 934 pp. $29.95. Illustrated. In a celebrated exchange between Jackson Pollock and Hans Hofmann, the latter urged Pollock to work from nature as Hofmann did in Provincetown,...

Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter paintings, ferociously dense yet airily light. He ponders it for several minutes, tracing his index finger over its subtler patterns. “These don’t look like strokes,” he finally says in his...

Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter paintings, ferociously dense yet airily light. He ponders it for several minutes, tracing his index finger over its subtler patterns. “These don’t look like strokes,” he finally says in his...

A formal interpretation of two paintings by 1940s abstract artist Jackson Pollock: Mural 1943/44, and Blue Poles. The interpretation compares the two paintings with regard to line work; shape; texture; color; movement, surface composition, and tonal structure; style, and technique.

An interpretive essay about Jackson Pollock's painting "Full Fathom Five" and what Pollock intended to do through his art.