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Weekly attraction / Jackson Pollock in UGM

Weekly attraction / Jackson Pollock in UGM

In 1961, 7 years after the founding of the gallery, the Maribor Art Gallery hosted the exhibition Contemporary American Art. Part of the exhibition were also canvases by the famous American painter Jackson Pollock. Traveling exhibitions of American art were organized at that time by the U.S. State Department as a form of cultural propaganda. The artistic movement of abstract expressionism - the leading representative was Pollock - was supposed to represent the free-thinking of the West, compared to the socialist realism of the Soviet Union.

The first director of UGM Branko Rudolf in front of Jackson Pollock’s canvases at the opening of the exhibition Contemporary American Art at UGM in 1961.
Jackson Pollock's painting The Cathedral from 1947, which was among the exhibited works at the 1961 exhibition Contemporary American Painting at UGM.
A 1949 photograph by Martha Holmes showing Jackson Pollock working in his studio in the hamlet of Springs, N.Y., on Long Island.


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