1950, Jackson Pollock, No. 2 -- Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge)
From the museum label: No. 2 exemplifies the mature paintings Pollock produced between 1947 and 1950, when he fully developed his signature “poured” technique. Laying raw, unstretched canvas on the floor of his barn studio on Long Island, Pollock worked from above, dripping, pouring, and flinging paint onto the surface. The compositions of looping, tangled lines, alternately forceful and delicate, express his highly physical creative process and serve as a record of his bodily engagement. Close inspection reveals Pollock’s interest in the properties of paint — its weight and viscosity, the way it bubbles and cracks, pools upon or sinks into the canvas — and the control he was able to maintain, despite the appearance of absolute spontaneity.
1950, Jackson Pollock, No. 2 -- Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge)
From the museum label: No. 2 exemplifies the mature paintings Pollock produced between 1947 and 1950, when he fully developed his signature “poured” technique. Laying raw, unstretched canvas on the floor of his barn studio on Long Island, Pollock worked from above, dripping, pouring, and flinging paint onto the surface. The compositions of looping, tangled lines, alternately forceful and delicate, express his highly physical creative process and serve as a record of his bodily engagement. Close inspection reveals Pollock’s interest in the properties of paint — its weight and viscosity, the way it bubbles and cracks, pools upon or sinks into the canvas — and the control he was able to maintain, despite the appearance of absolute spontaneity.