A Jackson Pollock Painting Gets A Touch-Up — And The Public's Invited To Watch
Those drips and dribbles collect a lot of dust, so conservator Chris Stavroudis is cleaning decades of accumulated grime off Pollock's Number 1, 1949 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
by Susan Stamberg
Aug 06, 2018
2 minutes
Jackson Pollock's painting Number 1,is a swirl of multi-colored, spaghettied paint, dripped, flung and slung across a 5-by-8-foot canvas. It's a textured work — including nails and a bee (we'll get to that later) — and in the nearly 70 years since its creation, it's attracted a fair bit of dust, dirt and grime.
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