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Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York) Title: Untitled , Date: ca. 1948–49 Medium: Dripped ink and enamel on paper Dimensions: 22 3/8 in. × 30 in. (56.8 × 76.2 cm) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1942,…
Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York) Title: Number 28, date: 1950 Medium: Enamel on canvas Dimensions: 68 1/16 in. × 8 ft. 8 13/16 in. (172.9 × 266.2 cm) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York After Pollock’s…
Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York) Title: Woman , Date: ca. 1952 Medium: Oil paint with collage of cut and printed paper on board Dimensions: 17 11/16 in. × 13 in. (45 × 33 cm) De Kooning…
Mark Rothko (American (born former Russian Empire, now Latvia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York, New York) Title: No. 13 (White, Red on Yellow) Date: 1958 Medium: Oil and acrylic with powdered pigments on canvas Dimensions: 95 1/4 × 81 3/8 (241.9 × 206.7 cm) Location:…
Clyfford Still (American, Grandin, North Dakota 1904–1980 Baltimore, Maryland) Title: 1943-A, Date: 1943 Medium: Oil on cloth Dimensions: 36 × 30 1/4 in. (91.4 × 76.8 cm) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1945 to 1961, Clyfford Still was a major…
Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York) Title: Black Untitled , Date: 1948 Medium: Oil and enamel on paper, mounted on wood Dimensions: 29 7/8 × 40 in. (75.9 × 101.6 cm) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,…
Robert Motherwell (American, Aberdeen, Washington 1915–1991 Provincetown, Massachusetts) Title: Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70 Date: 1961 , Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 69 x 114 in. (175.3 x 289.6 cm) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Beginning about 1948, Motherwell…
Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York) Title: Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) Date: 1950 , Medium: Enamel on canvas Dimensions: 8 ft. 9 in. × 17 ft. 3 in. (266.7 × 525.8 cm) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York…
After a world war that is so vicious, so cruel, how can we simply continue with life, and art, in the same way as before? This is the question many artists were asking themselves after the Second World War. In…
Few paintings embody raw, unrestrained energy quite like Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Bacchus) series. Created in 2008, this monumental work—now housed at Tate Modern—is a visceral explosion of looping, blood-red strokes that seem to dance and clash across the vast canvas.…