Past Continuous," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will examine the lives and careers of both artists, who met in New York in the 1940s ...
The Met will give a joint spotlight to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in a blockbuster exhibition this fall. The show stresses that the artists were equals, despite Pollock’s unmatched fame. More ...
This film explores Pollock’s rise to fame, personal decline and the surprising link between abstract art and Cold War politics.
Jackson Pollock had bad balance. This is not the opinion of a snarky viewer sniping at a drip painting, but the assessment of Francis O’Connor, the great Pollock scholar. After a difficult birth ...
This October, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will take an unprecedented step, showcasing the careers of artists Lee Krasner ...
Not everyone appreciates the artistry of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings, with some dismissing them as something any child could create. While Pollock’s work is undeniably more sophisticated ...
Researchers find adults paint richer, more varied trajectories than children, but paintings of the latter share characteristics with famous work by expressionists, including Jackson Pollock What makes ...
At first glance, the act of pouring paint across a canvas looks wild. Paint drops through the air, twists with each motion of the wrist, and splashes into tangled paths that seem to follow no plan.
Students at Pine Street Elementary School embraced their artistic side on Thursday.
Krasner was typecast as the wife of the breakout artist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, no matter how renegade her own work. At the Met this fall, she emerges from his giant shadow. By Amei ...
The laws of physics were greater collaborators with Jackson Pollock than most painters. Leaning over unstretched canvas laid flat on the ground, the American artist experimented with the movement, ...
Jackson Pollock, “Number 1, 1949” (1949), enamel and metallic paint on canvas, 63 x 102 1/2 in., (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Rita and Taft Schreiber Collection, Given in loving ...