"[Jackson] Pollock would often begin with some sort of figurative device to which he would then respond—and eventually bury under layers of paint," says Sue Taylor, an art historian at Portland State ...

Jackson Pollock was never one for the easel. Instead, at his studio in East Hampton, New York, the artist tacked canvases on the wooden floor, onto which he dripped and splattered household paint to ...

Rudy Burckhardt, “Jackson Pollock holding a can of paint” (1950) (copyright 2016 Estate of Rudy Burckhardt/ Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian ...

A new season of the popular podcast, Death of an Artist, will take on the story of one of the most famous couples in art history, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, from the latter’s perspective, asking ...

Jackson Pollock and John Cage are legends in American history. In the centennial year of both artists’ births, two exhibitions now on view in New York celebrate their work and underline the fact that ...

FILE - David Brenneman, director of collections and exhibitions at the High Museum, talks about Jackson Pollock's painting "Number 1A" on display as part of an exhibit in Atlanta, on Thursday, Oct. 6, ...

Famed abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock notoriously relied on non-traditional painting techniques to create his masterpieces. Physicists have pondered the presence of curls and coils in his work, ...

Can a machine be trained to paint like Jackson Pollock? More specifically, can 3D printing harness Pollock's distinctive techniques to quickly and accurately print complex shapes? "I wanted to know, ...

According to new research published by psychiatry professor Stephen M. Stahl, artist Jackson Pollock clearly incorporated images into his pre-drip paintings and repeatedly used the same images in ...

One of American artist Jackson Pollock’s signature “drip” paintings is poised to rank among Pollock’s most expensive works, after it returns to auction next month for the first time in decades. A ...

Scientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock's paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time that the Abstract Expressionist used a ...

A “drip” painting by the Abstract Expressionist sold for $181.2 million with fees, while a bronze head by the Romanian sculptor brought in $107.6 million at Christie’s, both from the S.I. Newhouse ...