
Jackson Pollock
Alchemy
1947
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Jackson Pollock
1947
Enchanted Forest exemplifies Jackson Pollock’s mature abstract compositions created by the pouring, dripping, and splattering of paint on large, unstretched canvases. In Enchanted Forest Pollock opens up the more dense construction of layered color found in works such as Alchemy by allowing large areas of white to breathe amidst the network of moving, expanding line. He also reduces his palette to a restrained selection of gold, black, red, and white. Pollock creates a delicate balance of form and color through orchestrating syncopated rhythms of lines that surge, swell, retreat, and pause only briefly before plunging anew into continuous, lyrical motion. One’s eye follows eagerly, pursuing first one dripping rope of color and then another, without being arrested by any dominant focus. Rather than describing a form, Pollock’s line thus becomes continuous form itself.
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Artist | Jackson Pollock |
Date | 1947 |
Medium | Oil and alkyd enamel paint on canvas |
Dimensions | 221.3 x 114.6 cm |
Credit line | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) |
Accession | 76.2553 PG 151 |
Collection | Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Type | Painting |
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Jackson Pollock
1947
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Jackson Pollock
1946
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