{"id":1301,"date":"2012-07-31T20:35:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2012-07-31T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:35:19","slug":"jackson-pollocks-mural-arrives-at-gettys-conservation-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2012\/07\/31\/jackson-pollocks-mural-arrives-at-gettys-conservation-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’ arrives at Getty’s conservation lab"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jackson Pollock's 1943 "Mural" has arrived at the Getty Museum's conservation lab, where it will undergo extensive treatment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Mural,” the critically important painting in\u00a0Jackson Pollock<\/a>‘s development as a major American artist, has arrived in the conservation lab at the\u00a0J. Paul Getty Museum<\/a>. A visit Wednesday to see the monumental 1943 canvas, which is in the collection of the University of Iowa\u00a0Museum of Art<\/a>, shows why conservation work is imperative.<\/p>\n

What the artist called “a stampede” of shapes, lines of force and rhythmic colors across the canvas had a profound effect on American art, sweeping away the nativist ethos of his mentor, Thomas Hart Benton.<\/p>\n

But a pronounced sag can now be seen in the center of the painting at the top. Unframed, “Mural” is roughly 8 feet tall and 20 feet wide. The downward weight in the middle is pulling up the bottom edges of the canvas at the right and left. Rather than a wide rectangle, “Mural” is showing modest but clear signs of a broad, downward curve.<\/p>\n

What caused the sagging? At some point, a new lining on the back was added to reinforce the canvas. Re-lining, a common procedure, employed a wax adhesive. Given the picture’s size, considerable weight was added to the painting.<\/p>\n

Museum conservators will work with scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute to determine how to rectify the problem. They also plan to remove a layer of varnish from the painting’s surface, apparently added in the 1970s, which creates a slight sheen.<\/p>\n

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“Mural,” the critically important painting in\u00a0Jackson Pollock‘s development as a major American artist, has arrived in the conservation lab at the\u00a0J. Paul Getty Museum. A visit Wednesday to see the monumental 1943 canvas, which is in the collection of the University of Iowa\u00a0Museum of Art, shows why conservation work is imperative. What the artist called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-preservation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}