In this, the most ambitious and finished of his engravings, Pollock worked the lines into a complex, interlocking network that begins to suggest the kind of allover fields he would develop in his drip paintings a few years later. However, there are still suggestions of figures, most obviously at the far left, where a sentinel-like form with a raised arm and a three-toed foot can be seen.
Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954, November 22, 2015–May 1, 2016.
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Jackson Pollock
American, 1912–1956 86 works onlineIn 1947 Jackson Pollock arrived at a new mode of working that brought him international fame. His method consisted of flinging and dripping thinned enamel paint onto an unstretched canvas laid on the floor of his studio.
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