Jackson Pollock's Blue poles
Learning Resource
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Jackson Pollock, Blue poles (detail), 1952, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1973 © Pollock-Krasner Foundation. ARS/Copyright Agency
Resource to take students on a learning experience of one of the National Gallery's most well known and most controversial works of art.
Overview
Curriculum Connections
Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures,
Learning area: Visual Arts, but also has relevance for Humanities and Social Sciences, History, and Civics & Citizenship
Themes
Art history, Colour and emotion, Abstract Expressionism,
Level Details
Creative mark-making explorations and the poetics of colour/marks.