Sentences with phrase «classic drip painting»

Secondly, I would like to propose what I think is a fresh, if not in fact entirely new, way of looking at the lines, forms and spaces of the classic drip paintings.»

The exhibition will first introduce audiences to Pollock's work via a selection of his classic drip paintings made between 1947 and 1950, including Number 2, 1950, a work from the Harvard Art Museums» collection that has not traveled in over 20 years.

With more than 70 works of art, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, the exhibition first introduces museum goers to Pollock's work via a wide selection of his classic drip paintings made between 1947 and 1950.

Including a wide variety of pieces that have not been exhibited for more than 50 years, Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots gives museum visitors an unprecedented look into Pollock's practice, namely his classic drip paintings.

The title refers to the fact that the «classic drip paintings were so powerful and so magnificent that they forced a blind spot in our ability to look at other parts of Pollock's practice,» says DMA curator Gavin Delahunty by phone.

When we think of the work of Jackson Pollock, we are likely to conjure his classic drip paintings, those massive canvases covered in dribbles and splotches and stringy tangled skeins of multicolored paint that forever changed the art world's understanding of how a painting can look.

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After an opening room of «classic» drip paintings, it plunges into a heartbreaking journey among the black, blotted, semi-figurative paintings that are usually seen as symptoms of his tragic decline.