Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an abstract expressionist painter from America. Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956, American painter, was one of the leaders in Abstract Expressionism. He developed radical "drip painting" technique that still exists today in many contemporary artists' work. Famous Pollock paintings include Convergence, Nmber 1, Number 8, Number 14 and Blue Poles. Pollock paintings inspired many contemporary artists, and his work is on show in leading art galleries around the world including National Gallery of Australia, Albright-Knox Art Gallery & Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Browse through our selection below of Jackson Pollock paintings, which are available at 50% OFF equivalent gallery prices, with free international shipping available.
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Jackson Pollock had a unique method for creating his masterpieces, by circling around a huge canvas laid flat on the floor, as he would drip, pour and splash paints randomly on the canvas. This has since been termed action painting. Each painting would have large amounts of randomness, encouraged by his unconscious mind, with no consistent subject from one painting to the next. It was the birth of abstract painting as Pollock's subconscious became unravelled in a fusion of works offering his freedom of imagination as a bizarre art form.
Convergence displays Pollock's emotions in abstract form, and shows them to be wild, with his innovative, multi-levelled imagination on full show. It was the best art form that he could find to thoroughly represent his turbulent mind which both haunted him, but also drove him to his best art.
Jackson Pollock's alcoholism and bouts of intensive depression added to his fame across America, as he continued to paint in order to break away and distract himself from his own social problems. Van Gogh and many other artists have done similar. He sought therapy through his novel approach of drip painting, which included Number 1 (Lavender Mist).
Pollock's earlier paintings were predominantly in black and white including Number Twenty-Three, Echo and Number Seven. By 1952 he chose to switch back to his large-scale, full color formats with Convergence and Blue Poles.
To understand the importance of Jackson Pollock's paintings in the development and popularity of modern art it is important to remember that in 1973, Blue Poles was purchased by the Australian Whitlam Government for the National Gallery of Australia for US $2 million (AU $1.3 million at the time of payment). At the time, this was the highest price ever paid for a modern painting. In the conservative climate of the time, the purchase created a political and media scandal. The painting is now one of the most popular exhibits in the gallery, and is thought to be worth between $100 and $150 million, according to 2006 estimates. It was a centerpiece of the Museum of Modern Art's 1998 retrospective in New York, the first time the painting had returned to America since its purchase. The early purchases were clearly brave, but the owners now can enjoy the benefits with huge profits, though in most cases would be unwilling to sell. Most who own truly classic paintings will rarely sell them on, so the priceless tag is particularly suitable for Pollock's most famous paintings.
In November 2006, Pollock's No. 5, 1948 became the world's most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of $140,000,000. The previous owner was film and music-producer David Geffen. It is rumored that the current owner is a German businessman and art collector.
