Jackson Pollock's Convergence

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Perhaps Pollock’s most famous work, Convergence, is a splatter painted collage of colors on canvas, creating an eye-catching image that evokes many different conceptions. Painted in 1952, Pollock uses colors, lines, textures, shades, and shapes to successfully create an ideal face for the Abstract Art movement. Jackson Pollock’s painting style, demonstrated in Convergence, played an influential role in the development of the art world. With the United States in fear of the rapid spread of Communism during the Cold War, Convergence and other abstract works of art “embodied freedom of speech and expression.” Pollock’s artwork rebelled against the constraints of society’s oppression and conservative views. It represented all of what America truly

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