Jackson pollock number 5

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Jackson Pollock ~ Number 5, 1948

New York School. A loose association of vanguard artists working in New York City during the 1940s and ’50s. At the center of the New York School were artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, who were associated with Abstract Expressionism and helped establish a uniquely American avant-garde and propel New York City to eclipse Paris as the center of the art world. These artists created stylistically diverse, often monumental paintings that introduced bold innovations…

MoMA | MoMA’s Jackson Pollock Conservation Project: Number 1A, 1948

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Exhibition. Oct 3, 2010–Apr 25, 2011. More than sixty years have passed since the critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term “Abstract Expressionism” to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. Over the years the name has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and David Smith. Beginning in the 1940s, under the aegis of Director…

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Jackson Pollock - Composition with Pouring II 1943 Hirshhorn Art Museum Washington DC