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Title
Mural
,
1943
Creator
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
Date Original
1943
Description
During
World
War
II
,
just
as
America
became
the
great
world
military
and
economic
power
,
New
York
became
the
major
artistic
center
of the
world
. If this
shift
from
Europe
to
New
York
had a
single
moment
of
origin
,
it
was with the
painting
of
Jackson
Pollock’s
Mural
.
Arising
from the
influence
of
surrealist
symbolism
and
automatism
as
well
as
some
American
stylistic
roots
,
Mural
was the
product
of an
apparently
improvisational
and
spontaneous
process
of
painting
. This was a
totally
new
conception
of
painting—as
jazz
had been a
new
conception
of
music
. This
artistic
movement
became
known
in the
late
1940s
and the
1950s
as
Abstract
Expressionism
. The
artists
did
not
share
a
visual
style
,
rather
they
shared
the
idea
that the
act
of
painting
is
a
way
to
explore
human
consciousness
. Their
subject
is
their
own
consciousness
expressed
through
color
, the
application
of
paint
, or a
language
of
symbols
. By
exploring
the
process
of
painting
or the
quality
of
paintings
as
objects
, they were
exp
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Contributing Institution
The University of Iowa Muesum of Art
Repository Collection Identifier
1959.6
Type
Still image
Oil paintings
Oil on canvas
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