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Number 5, 1950

1950
(American, 1912–1956)
Culture
America
Measurements
Framed: 138 x 102 x 5 cm (54 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 136.5 x 99.1 cm (53 3/4 x 39 in.)
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Copyright
© Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Although he was born Paul Jackson Pollock, he always went by his middle name.

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Notoriously nicknamed "Jack the Dripper" by Time magazine, Pollock pioneered the technique of flinging pigment from store-bought cans of paint onto canvas placed flat on the floor. Filled with intricate webs of lines and intermingled spatters, paintings such as Number 5, 1950 are unusually direct records of the artist's moving body and hand gestures.
A vertically oriented oil painting is completely overlaid with thick paint swirls of black, gray, white, and yellow that occasionally thin into fine streaks and splatter into flecks and blobs. Occasionally a field of cream, blue, or green shows through from under the swirling mass.

Number 5, 1950

1950

Jackson Pollock

(American, 1912–1956)
America

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