JACKSON POLLOCK'S MURAL

Jackson Pollocks major early work Mural (1943) was commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for the entrance hall of her East 61st Street N ew York residence. Mural-sized, though not actually a muralthe work is painted on a six-meter-long canvas, not directly onto the wa llthis vast, frieze-like panorama would be hugely influential in twentieth-century American art.In Jackson Pollocks Mural: Energy Made Visible, David Anfam explores the painting and its impact by way of the different themes it incorporates, including the imagery of action an...[Read more]