Curator Nicholas Cullinan on Jackson Pollock's painting "Number 28, 1950."
Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.
Photography by Mark Morosse
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Still-photograph composites courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A., Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
"Jackson Pollock," Hans Namuth, 1950, Purchase, Funds from various donors and Matching Funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1981 (1981.1063). Photograph courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography.
This video uses 3D color-rendered scans to illustrate how sections of the Marquand Altarpiece were fitted together like pieces in a building-block puzzle.
