Having told about the life and work of Jackson Pollock, now I'm going to show you how I was influenced by his work. For the final Art History presentation at AOD, I choose to work on Pollock's famous painting No.5.
The Original painting was done in 1948, on an 8' x 4' sheet of fiberboard, using thick amounts of brown and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like appearance. Because Pollock used house paint, he created his large compositions horizontally to prevent paint from running. His gestural lines created a nest like appearance. The original No.5 was owned by Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art. Later it was sold to David Geffen who then sold it to David Martinez for a price of $140 million, in 2006 though some sources provide that this supposed sale of the painting has being opposed by the attorneys of Martinez. However, if the sale has truly taken place, then it would be the second most expensive painting in the world after The Card Players by Paul Cezanne worth $259 + million.
Source : http://www.artfortune.com/art-masterpieces/
I totally enjoyed dripping paint on to my canvas. I tried my best to make sure that it looks like the original, but it should be taken to notice that while Pollock did it on a huge fiberboard, mine was just a canvas.
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