Tag: Pollock

Pollock’s technique typically involved pouring paint straight from a can or along a stick onto a canvas lying horizontally on the floor. It’s often referred to as the “drip technique,” but that’s a bit of a misnomer in the parlance of fluid mechanics, Zenit says. What painting techniques is Jackson Pollock known for? American painter […]

A classic “drip” picture by Jackson Pollock is believed to have become the world’s most expensive painting after it was sold in America by the Hollywood entertainment mogul David Geffen for $140 million (£75 million). What is Jackson Pollock’s most valuable painting? The Five Most Expensive Jackson Pollock Paintings Blue Poles, 1952 ($350 million) Convergence, […]

This study of just two paintings shows the shift in Pollock’s use of materials, from his reliance on artists’ oil paints in 1943 to the predominance of commercial paints in his work by 1949. Did Jackson Pollock use oil or acrylic paint? Pollock started using synthetic resin-based paints called alkyd enamels, which at that time […]

Pollock’s interest in ceramics was inspired by the work of his teacher, Thomas Hart Benton, who had discovered during his impoverished years in New York that it was easier to sell decorated ceramics than paintings. Pollock’s surviving ceramics seem to have been made at two times. What were Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings inspired by? Pollock […]

363 paintings. He painted a total of 363 paintings in his short 44 years of life. The circumstances around his death were tragic and are widely known, in part, thanks to the Hollywood movie Pollock. How much is a original Jackson Pollock painting worth? Pollock’s current auction record is $58.4 million, set in 2013 for […]