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Art & Language — Portrait of President Barack Obama in the Style of Jackson Pollock
Art & Language

Portrait of President Barack Obama in the Style of Jackson Pollock

2013

Art & Language creates a two-part work combining enamel painting and graphite drawing that reimagines Barack Obama's portrait through the gestural abstraction of Jackson Pollock's drip painting technique. The work bridges contemporary portraiture with twentieth-century modernist abstraction.

Medium
enamel on canvas mounted on panel and graphite on paper, in 2 parts

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

April 16, 2021

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Art & Language, Portrait of President Barack Obama in the Style of Jackson Pollock, 2013

Art & Language creates a two-part work combining enamel painting and graphite drawing that reimagines Barack Obama's portrait through the gestural abstraction of Jackson Pollock's drip painting technique. The work bridges contemporary portraiture with twentieth-century modernist abstraction.

Medium
enamel on canvas mounted on panel and graphite on paper, in 2 parts
Year
2013
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Mixed Media, Obama, 2013, Abstraction, Portrait, Contemporary Art, Political Art, Jackson Pollock

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