Convergence (Pollock) Convergence (Pollock) Convergence is a 1952 oil painting by Jackson Pollock. The composition was painted on canvas. Convergence is one of the paintings by American artist Jackson Pollock, who is known as a representative of abstract expressionism. The composition was created on a canvas, measuring 93.5 inches by 155 inches. It is an oil painting, which constitutes wide range of colors, lines and shapes, made by method of dripping and pouring paint onto canvas. These lines, spots, circles splattered on a canvas unintentionally convey the artist's emotions. The painting was made during the Cold War with Russia, and it is
Charles Pearce (calligrapher) Pearce began to use brushes on canvas rather than pens and paper which gave him the opportunity to work considerably larger than previously. He has developed a technique which involves the throwing of paint onto raw canvas, to create the start of his paintings. He then stretches the canvas onto frames/stretchers which he has designed specially to take the force of stretching the canvas, which doesn't involve any cross-bracing. His largest single canvas to date measures 5 ft by 9 ft. It was on a visit back to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he had taught a workshop back in 1988,