Jackson Pollock

In this documentary, veteran filmmaker Harry Moses ("Sex Sells," "The Van") exposes the controversy and culture in the world of high priced artwork. When a 73-year-old former truck driver with an eighth grade education buys a thrift shop painting for five dollars, she has no idea that it would pit her against the highest and mightiest denizens of the art world. But when the painting in question might possibly be the work of American art icon Jackson Pollock and worth over $50 million, she's off on a rollicking adventure and a 15 year fight with the art world that paints a vivid picture of how art is bought and sold in America.
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Length: 01:14:01
Posted: 4/22/2009

The story of an undiscovered painting by one of the great artists of the 20th century and its journey from a five-dollar tag sale item to its current asking price of $50 million.
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Length: 01:15:00
Posted: 8/21/2009

The story of an undiscovered painting by one of the great artists of the 20th century and its journey from a five-dollar tag sale item to its current asking price of $50 million.
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Length: 01:15:00
Posted: 8/21/2009

Painter, born in Cody, Wyoming, USA. He grew up in Wyoming and California, and later moved to New York City. His paintings of the 1930s, such as 'Birth' (1937), anticipate the turbulent impasto and sexual imagery of his later work. His first major exhibition was organized by Peggy Guggenheim (1943) when he was using mythological themes, as seen in 'The She Wolf' (1943). In c.1946 he settled in Easthampton, Long Island, and began his critically acclaimed abstract work exemplified by 'Full Fathom Five' (1947). The spatter-and-drip technique used on his large canvases (1945-55) established his reputation as a major abstract expressionistic painter. This 'drip-splash' method of painting, though in reality only lasting about 4 years, is the style with which he is synonymous. With his canvas lying flat to the floor, Pollock would stand over it and slosh paint in dribbly tickles all over it, disguising the 'beginning' or focus point, leading the eye in a frenzy over the colorful, abstract des
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Length: 44:20
Posted: 5/18/2009