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Pollock Number 15 Print
Pollock Number 15 Print
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Jackson Pollock made his first ‘drip’ paintings in late 1947. His innovative break with traditional materials and techniques, which involved pouring and flinging commercial-grade paints onto canvases placed on the floor of his Springs, New York, studio, enabled him to discard recognisable imagery and leave in its wake skeins and puddles of thinned pigment. Pollock’s radical approach to making a picture, which fellow Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning likened to the destruction of painting, challenged artists and critics to redefine the very notion of art.
Number 15, 1948: Red, Gray, White, Yellow, 1948 is one of several small works in which the artist experimented with dripping enamel paint on paper covered in wet paint. Pollock used the wet-on-wet technique to create dynamic lines of white that seem to bleed at their edges into a black background. Looking closely, one can see how the imprint of a brush handle or paint stick in the pool of yellow paint at centre left interrupts this composition’s web of curving gestures.
23.9 x 17.4cm (image only)
35.2 x 27.8 x 0.1cm (including white matting)
made in New Zealand
Unframed prints can be shipped both nationally and internationally, framed prints are only available to be shipped within Aotearoa, New Zealand.
