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Totem Lesson 2 - Jackson Pollock
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Beschreibung
A 1945 oil painting by Jackson Pollock, featuring symbolic, totemic forms rendered in a gestural, abstract style.
Painted in 1945, Totem Lesson 2 belongs to a period in Jackson Pollock's career where his work moved away from pure representation toward a more symbolic and gestural language. During this time, Pollock engaged with the ideas of Carl Jung, exploring the concept of the collective unconscious and the power of mythic imagery. The canvas features a grey ground, which acts as a neutral field for the application of dark, rhythmic forms.
These shapes suggest totemic figures or abstracted biological entities. Pollock uses a combination of thick, deliberate brushwork and more fluid, calligraphic lines to construct these forms. The composition avoids a central focus, instead distributing visual weight across the surface in a manner that anticipates his later, more expansive drip paintings. The palette is restrained, relying on blacks, browns, and muted tones to maintain a sense of gravity and focus.
Unlike his later works, which often obscure the hand of the artist through dense webs of paint, Totem Lesson 2 retains a clear connection to the act of drawing. Each mark remains visible, allowing the viewer to trace the movement of the brush across the surface. The work reflects an interest in the primitive and the archetypal, themes that occupied many artists in New York during the 1940s. By stripping away narrative detail, Pollock invites the viewer to engage with the raw energy of the paint itself. This piece offers a view into the transition between his earlier figurative experiments and the radical abstraction that would define his later career.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
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Totem Lesson 2 - Jackson Pollock
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Ab £28.00 GBP
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Ab £28.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Jackson Pollock
Pollock grew up in Arizona and California, the youngest of five brothers. His father left when he was eight. Two of his brothers were already studying art, and he followed them to the Art Students League in New York at seventeen, where he worked under Thomas Hart Benton. Benton painted muscular American regionalist scenes: cowboys, farmhands, rolling landscapes. Pollock absorbed the energy and rejected the subject matter.
He drank heavily from his teens onwards. He was in and out of psychiatric treatment, tried Jungian analysis, and spent time working for the WPA Federal Art Project during the Depression. The early paintings are dark, tangled, influenced by Picasso and by the Mexican muralists Orozco and Siqueiros, whose experimental techniques (including pouring paint) Pollock encountered in a workshop.
The drip paintings started in 1947. He laid canvas on the floor of his barn in Springs, Long Island, and poured household enamel paint from tins, flicking and dripping it with sticks, trowels, and hardened brushes. He moved around the canvas, working from all four sides. No easel, no brushes touching surface, no predetermined composition. 'I am nature,' he told an interviewer, which sounds grandiose but describes the method accurately: the paintings record physical movement through space.
The drip period lasted roughly four years. By 1951 he had largely stopped, returning to figurative work that nobody wanted. His marriage to the painter Lee Krasner deteriorated alongside the drinking. He died in a car crash in 1956, at forty-four, drunk at the wheel. Krasner spent the next three decades managing his legacy and making her own paintings, which were excellent and consistently overlooked.
He drank heavily from his teens onwards. He was in and out of psychiatric treatment, tried Jungian analysis, and spent time working for the WPA Federal Art Project during the Depression. The early paintings are dark, tangled, influenced by Picasso and by the Mexican muralists Orozco and Siqueiros, whose experimental techniques (including pouring paint) Pollock encountered in a workshop.
The drip paintings started in 1947. He laid canvas on the floor of his barn in Springs, Long Island, and poured household enamel paint from tins, flicking and dripping it with sticks, trowels, and hardened brushes. He moved around the canvas, working from all four sides. No easel, no brushes touching surface, no predetermined composition. 'I am nature,' he told an interviewer, which sounds grandiose but describes the method accurately: the paintings record physical movement through space.
The drip period lasted roughly four years. By 1951 he had largely stopped, returning to figurative work that nobody wanted. His marriage to the painter Lee Krasner deteriorated alongside the drinking. He died in a car crash in 1956, at forty-four, drunk at the wheel. Krasner spent the next three decades managing his legacy and making her own paintings, which were excellent and consistently overlooked.
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