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Mural on Indian Red Ground is a 1950 abstract expressionist drip painting by American artist Jackson Pollock, currently in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. It is valued at about $250 million [1] and is considered one of Pollock's greatest works. [2]
Mural is a largely abstract work with the suggestion of several human figures walking, or possibly birds, or letters and numbers, in broad swirls of black and white. It combines influences from artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Albert Pinkham Ryder and El Greco, and Mexican mural artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Paul Jackson Pollock (/ ˈ p ɒ l ə k /; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter.A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles.
A $10 million dollar Jackson Pollock painting has been discovered and the Arizona owner had no idea they were holding something so valuable in their attic.
Mural (1943) Mural on Indian Red Ground; N. No. 5, 1948; ... Media in category "Paintings by Jackson Pollock" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total.
Many painters started using red or brown pigments for their oil grounds. [1] In Jackson Pollock's 1950 painting, Mural on Indian Red Ground, the red, colored ground layer is visible throughout the painting, providing thematic consistency for the main color layer of drips and splashes. [citation needed]
Conservation treatments can take the form of adhering a lining to the canvas with wax-resin to the reverse side, replacing the painting's original stretcher, and varnishing the painting. In Jackson Pollock's Echo, solvents were used to remove a thin layer of the canvas to even out the work's coloring. [32]
Pollock's studio-floor in Springs, New York, the visual result of being his primary painting surface from 1946 until 1953 Drip painting found particular expression in the work of the mid-twentieth-century artists Janet Sobel —who pioneered the technique [ 4 ] —and Jackson Pollock . [ 2 ]