Article · Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Jackson Pollock: Methods and Materials
By Susan Lake, Eugena Ordonez and Michael Schilling
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
Based on a conservation study, it traces how Pollock moved from brushed tube oils to dripping and pouring oil-modified alkyd house paints with sticks and stiffened brushes onto canvas laid on the floor, alternating dried layers with wet-in-wet passes where colours bleed together.
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