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dawnawakened:

Jackson Pollock in Long Island studio. (1949)

“In its edition of August 8th, 1949, Life magazine ran a feature article about Jackson Pollock that bore this question in the headline: “Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” Could a painter who flung paint at canvases with a stick, who poured and hurled it to create roiling vortexes of color and line, possibly be considered “great”? New York’s critics certainly thought so, and Pollock’s pre-eminence among the Abstract Expressionists has endured, cemented by the legend of his alcoholism and his early death. The famous ‘drip paintings’ that he began to produce in the late 1940s represent one of the most original bodies of work of the century. At times they could suggest the life-force in nature itself, at others they could evoke man’s entrapment - in the body, in the anxious mind, and in the newly frightening modern world.” - The Art Story
84 ♥ / 29 April, 2013
2084 ♥ / 18 April, 2013
lionelenoil:

magritte
909 ♥ / 4 April, 2013
31 ♥ / 17 March, 2013
jaded-mandarin:

The Tower of Babel - Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Detail.
1066 ♥ / 17 March, 2013
imagediver:

Click on the image to see the detail in a zoomable context.
Detail from Abraham del Court and his wife Maria de Kaersgieter, Bartholomeus van der Helst
939 ♥ / 17 March, 2013
atavus:

Frank Stella - Die Fahne hoch!, 1959
1076 ♥ / 17 March, 2013
drawpaintprint:

Giorgio De Chirico, The Double Dream of Spring, 1915
9 ♥ / 3 March, 2013
347 ♥ / 28 February, 2013
1454 ♥ / 20 February, 2013
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