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Today, “Alchemy” rests in the Guggenheim Museum of New York City. This is one of Pollock’s earliest poured paintings where he used sand, pebbles, broken wood sticks and fibers. He used his famous technique, also referred to as ‘drip painting’, for the first time. He would lay the painting on the flo...

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Jackson Pollock is known for his ‘drip paintings’, the first ‘all over’ artist, he would lay the canvas on the ground and dance around it while splashing the paint all over the canvas, a way for him to be 'inside' it, acting as simply a medium for his art to come through. Lavender Mist suggests a br...

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More properly known as Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952, this painting is considered Pollock’s most important work. In 1973, it was purchased at auction for $2 million dollars, which at the time was the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction. At the time of sale the art world was typified by a...

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Introduction to the Artist

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This painting was created on an eight by four feet fiberboard. The style that Jackson Pollock used for this art work was the use of liquid paints. He decided to move away from the traditional style of using paints on canvas. No. 5 can be seen with huge amounts of yellow and brown paint drizzled on i...

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