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Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.
Jackson Pollock, known as 'Action Jackson' because of the amount of movement and emotion he expressed in his paintings, did not paint like a normal artist. He neglected the easel and chose house paint over oils or watercolors. Some liked his modern style and some didn't. But everyone agreed he was a true original.
Author
Series
Alix London mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will follow. So she's understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur's eye spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting at Palm Springs's Brethwaite Museum--her current employer. Alix is already under fire, the object of a vicious online smear campaign. Now the Brethwaite's despicable senior curator, obsessed with the "maximization of monetized eyeballs,"...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A clever, charmingly quirky portrayal of painter Jackson Pollock - and the first in a series of picture-book biographies of contemporary artists Jackson Pollock was unlike any other painter. Instead of sitting in front of an easel with brushes, he poured paint over canvases rolled-out across the floor, moving, splashing, and making the vivid liquid run with energy and rhythm. Pollock's story is told here with wit and eccentricity, perfectly paired...
4) Pollock
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before...
Author
Publisher
Laurence King Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of America's Western landscape where the artist grew up. Pollock said that he painted 'out of his conscious': the cathartic dribbled paint reflected his troubled mind. This book traces Pollock's career and discusses how his loose, individual style was used as a political weapon in the Cold War, representing America as the...
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