When was blue poles made

All Rights Reserved. Toggle navigation Jackson Pollock. Blue Poles, by Jackson Pollock Courtesy of www. Lavender Mist. Number One, Shimmering Substance. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques of painting. I am able to be more free and move about the canvas with greater ease. In , Pollock married fellow artist Lee Krasner, and the couple moved to Long Island, where they bought a farmhouse with the financial support of Peggy Guggenheim. Pollock converted the barn into his studio, providing himself with the space he needed to explore and perfect his drip technique.

In , four years before his death, Pollock painted Blue Poles , reassessing his drip style, which he had used in his paintings from to He applied the first layer of paint while the canvas was stretched out on the floor, after which he tacked the canvas to a beam running along the wall of the studio.

He then applied white paint, allowing this to run down the canvas. After this stage, he returned the canvas to the floor and continued with his characteristic pouring and dripping technique. It took nearly a week for each of the layers to dry.

Pollock used sticks, brushes and syringes to build up rhythmic splashes, and finally created the vertical blue poles cutting through the wild drips and gestures. This element — to which various figurative connotations have been attributed, from totems to the masts of a ship — differed significantly from his previous works, as the poles created strong vertical focus points in the painting. The oranges, the yellows were terrific, the whites splendid.

It was first and foremost an initiative of James Mollison, the inaugural director of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

It depends on your ambition. Its laws and policies included the Racial Discrimination Act, no-fault divorce, equal pay for women , land rights for Indigenous Australians , abolishing tertiary education fees and increasing access to health care for all Australians. The government made the arts a priority by doubling funding for Australian artists through the reconstituted Australia Council for the Arts.

Funding for visual arts increased dramatically with a focus on building the collection of the planned National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, whose budget increased fold. The following year Prime Minister John Gorton announced that the winner of a competition to build the gallery was the architectural firm of Edwards Madigan Torzillo and Partners. James Mollison was appointed as Arts Advisor to the Prime Minister that same year and was the Acting Director of the gallery from to when he was appointed Director, a position he held until A brief on the painting was prepared for Prime Minister Whitlam, as his approval was needed for such an expensive purchase.

Supporters of the acquisition saw the painting as symbolising a new, more internationally oriented, culturally mature nation.

Both responses brought attention to the visual arts in a way never before experienced in Australia. Blue Poles is the most viewed artwork at the National Gallery of Australia. Blue Poles, National Gallery of Australia. The National Museum of Australia acknowledges First Australians and recognises their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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