Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) is a large 1950 painting by Jackson Pollock, made by laying unstretched canvas on the studio floor and dripping, flinging and pouring commercial enamel paint from above rather than applying it with a brush to an upright canvas. The result is an all-over composition of interlaced black, white and brown skeins of paint with no single focal point and no evident top or bottom dictated by the process itself, a technique and scale widely treated as the definitive statement of Abstract Expressionist gestural painting.
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Year Created LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States 1 Medium
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Is Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) in the public domain?
Not yet; its copyright term runs through the end of 2026.
Not yet. Jackson Pollock died in 1956, and the common life-plus-seventy-years copyright term most jurisdictions use only lapses at the end of 2026. The atlas records the image as still under copyright pending that term expiry rather than treating it as public domain.
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Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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Sources
1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learning- chapter on Abstract Expressionism, section on Jackson Pollock
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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) is a large 1950 painting by Jackson Pollock, made by laying unstretched canvas on the studio floor and dripping, flinging and pouring commercial enamel paint from above rather than applying it with a brush to an upright canvas.
2. Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) (Wikipedia)
- infobox medium field: Enamel paint on canvas
In Group: Abstract Expressionist Canvases, Lead
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) is a 1950 abstract expressionist painting by American artist Jackson Pollock in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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