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Drip painting3/21/2023 Want to stay ahead of the art world? Subscribe to our newsletter to get the breaking news, eye-opening interviews, and incisive critical takes that drive the conversation forward. This multimedia display is aimed to guide audiences through the most technical aspects of the conservation process. Visitors to the exhibition “Alchemy by Jackson Pollock: Discovering the Artist at Work” will also encounter an installation with video, 3-D reproductions, touch-screens, and original items loaned from Pollock’s studio at the Pollock-Krasner House. This offers viewers an unprecedented insight at the work’s bright colors and dense sculptural surface, made of texturized layers of enamel, alkyd, oil paint, twine, sand, and pebbles. Since last Saturday, Alchemy-thought to be one of Pollock’s earliest poured paintings-is back on display in Venice without any glass protection. For an in-depth look at one of Pollock’s works, see “Strictly Critical” Spends an Hour With Pollock. For more news on Pollock, see Jackson Pollock at Center of $2.8 Million California Fraud Suit and Claims Dismissed in Fraud Case Involving Pollock Paintings. This summed up what was radically new about Pollocks application of automatism: he used the technique to express rather than to excavate he translated the act of painting itself into an adventure of self-realization. It had been previously believed that the composition was made up of random spatters and drops, but the analysis revealed delicate traces of white paint devising a sort of grid structure, which Pollock had created as means of compositional guidance. In the drip paintings Pollock eliminated all symbols and signs only the gesture itself remained as a mythic metaphor. The painting, whose appearance had been dimmed by dirt accumulated over the years, was taken to Florence, where it underwent an exhaustive analytical study, as well as a thorough cleaning and conservation procedure.Ĭrucially, the in-depth study of Alchemy yielded a sensational breakthrough: experts discovered that Pollock had used a structural plan to paint it. Alchemy, a large-scale painting that Jackson Pollock painted in 1947, has returned to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice after going through an extensive conservation, In Collect reports.
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