“Commentari,” 3 (July–September 1955), fig.Hess, “Jackson Pollock,” “ARTnews” 53, 1 (March 1954), p. James Fitzsimmons, “Art,” “Arts and Architecture” 71, 3 (March 1954), pp.Robert Coates, “Review,” “New Yorker” (February 20, 1954), pp.(circa) or BCE.ġ953 Medium Oil on linen Inscriptions Signed and dated: recto: "Jackson Pollock 53" (bottom right in black paint) verso: "Jackson Pollock / 53" (upper left in black paint) Dimensions Unframed: 182.9 × 244.2 cm (72 1/16 × 96 3/16 in.) 182.9 × 244.2 cm (72 × 96 1/8 in.) Credit Line Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art Reference Number 1955.494 Copyright © 2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Extended information about this artwork Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. Status On View, Gallery 291 Department Contemporary Art Artist Jackson Pollock Title Greyed Rainbow Place United States (Artist's nationality) Dateĭates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. The title of the work presumably refers to these grayed sections of hidden color. The work is predominantly black, white, gray, and silver in the bottom third of the canvas, however, Pollock thinly concealed orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The paint application ranges from thick chunks squeezed directly from a tube to thin, meandering lines poured from a container with a small hole or squirted from a baster. Among the last great purely abstract paintings Pollock made before his untimely death in 1956, Greyed Rainbow is a quintessential example of action painting.
With no apparent beginning or end, top or bottom, his paintings imply an extension of his art beyond the edges of the canvas, engulfing the viewer. He also challenged the concept of easel painting by working on canvases placed either on the floor or fixed to a wall. Pollock emphasized the expressive power of the artist’s gestures, materials, and tools, often applying paint with sticks, trowels, and palette knives instead of brushes.
In the late 1940s Jackson Pollock developed a revolutionary form of Abstract Expressionism by dripping, pouring, and splashing paint onto large-scale canvases.
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