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How to understand a Jackson Pollock painting | Art, Explained

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How to understand a Jackson Pollock painting | Art, Explained

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"This painting is incredibly honest; Pollock isn't trying to fool us in any way."

Curator Nicholas Cullinan on Jackson Pollock's painting "Number 28, 1950."

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Still-photograph composites courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A., Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
"Jackson Pollock," Hans Namuth, 1950, Purchase, Funds from various donors and Matching Funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1981 (1981.1063). Photograph courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography.

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