US EditionJackson Pollock put hidden images in his art
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A new study of abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's paintings identifies depictions of monkeys, clowns, self-portraits and other hidden motifs, suggesting that the artist was unaware of the imagery he was including in his works due to his bipolar disorder.
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in January 1912, although he grew up in Arizona and California, and was a leading American plastic artist and promoter of the abstract expressionist movement, who had great fame and notoriety in developing one of the most radical styles in modern art history, separating the line from color, redefining the categories of drawing and painting by finding new means to describe pictorial space.His life in New…
Jackson Pollock put hidden images in his art
A Jackson Pollock original painting. (Nick Edwards via SWNS) Artist Jackson Pollock did include hidden images in his work - possibly linked to his bipolar disorder, experts say. American Pollock was famous for his "drip technique" of splashing paint onto a horizontal canvas. Art fans have long claimed to see images in the apparently random works - which have been the subject of much debate. According to research published by leading psychiatry p…
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