"Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)" 1950 enamel on canvas by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) at @metmuseum the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written near the painting: In 1945, Pollock and his wife, the painter Lee Krasner, moved to a modest house near East Hampton, New York. Working in relative isolation in their small barn, Pollock began to develop a distinctive dripped or poured technique. Using simple sticks or paint stirrers and enamel house paint—sometimes poured right from the can—Pollock spun calligraphic lines of color directly onto raw canvas that lay unstretched on the floor. These interwoven skeins of paint are a record of the artist's movement around all sides of the canvas—which, in the muscular rhetoric of the critic Harold Rosenberg, had become "the arena in which to act." The abstract lines and large areas of raw canvas also trouble traditional artistic notions of figure and ground, illusionism and depth. One of the largest of his classic "drip" paintings, "Autumn Rhythm" was purchased by the Museum from Lee Krasner the year after Pollock's untimely death. #pollock #jacksonpollock #jacksonpollockweek #themet #themetropolitanmuseumofart #enameloncanvas #anstractart #abstractexpressionism #abstractpainting #allover #actionpainting #autumnrhythm (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
