"Isaac), the wealthy tech firm CEO, uses this painting as an object lesson for the protagonist Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) noting that ""No. 5, 1948"" would never have come into existence if Jackson Pollock only painted what he already knew. This is contrasted to the way an AI comes to know, thus emphasizing the problem of consciousness and epistemology. No. 5, 1948 No. 5, 1948 is a painting by Jackson Pollock, an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement. It was sold in May 2006 for $140 million, a new mark for highest ever price for"
"1948 painting ""No. 5, 1948"" from his collection for $140 million (£73.35 million) to Mexican financier David Martinez. Martinez is the founder of London-based Fintech Advisory Ltd, a financial house that specializes in buying Third World debt. The sale made ""No. 5, 1948"" the most expensive painting ever sold (outstripping the $134 million paid in October 2006 for Gustav Klimt's portrait ""Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,"" purchased by cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder). Wealth-X reported in June 2013 that Geffen owns the most valuable private art collection in the world, and estimated its worth at $1.1B at the time. In February"
"I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, also known as The Figure 5 in Gold, is a 1928 painting by American artist Charles Demuth. It has been described as influenced by Futurism and Cubism. Painted as a homage to Demuth's friend William Carlos Williams, the painting references Williams' poem ""The Great Figure,"" which describes a fire engine speeding through the streets of New York on a rainy night. The painting's title is a phrase from the poem. Demuth was known as a painter in the Precisionist style, incorporating clean lines and geometry into"
"Head V Head V is a 1949 painting by Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon, one of series of works made in 1949 for his first one-man exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, in London. It measures and is held in a private collection. The painting is part of a series of six works from the late 1940s depicting heads. Like ""Head II"", the work depicts a distorted head in a space in a space shrouded with vertical bands interpreted as curtains, with several safety pins in the curtains. Bacon's six ""Head"" paintings were first exhibited at the Hanover Gallery in 1949,"
"was grey, brown, white and yellow paint drizzled in a way that many people still perceive as a ""dense bird’s nest"". Initial reactions to the work by the uninitiated were underwhelming: The painting has been changed by Pollock since it was originally created. During January 1949, it was being shown in a solo Pollock show at the Betty Parsons gallery. It was from here that Alfonso A. Ossorio decided to purchase a ""paint drip"" composition; he chose No. 5, 1948 and paid $1,500. It was the only canvas sold from the show. At some point, presumably during the moving process,"
"The Five Senses (series) The Five Senses is a set of allegorical paintings created at Antwerp in 1617–18 by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, with Brueghel being responsible for the settings and Rubens for the figures. They are now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. They are all painted in oils on wood panel, approximately in dimensions. The series constitutes one of the best known and most successful collaborations by Brueghel and Rubens, who were close friends. The allegorical representation of the five senses as female figures had begun in the previous century, the earliest known examples"
"a record for the highest price paid for a piece of art with the purchase of a Jackson Pollock painting from David Geffen. Pollock's painting ""No. 5, 1948"" sold for US$140 million (£73m), on 1 November 2006. However, the auction expert Josh Baer stated that Martinez was not the buyer of the painting. In addition, Shearman & Sterling issued a press release on behalf of its client, David Martinez, to announce that contrary to articles in the press, Martinez does not own the painting or any rights to acquire it. In October 2012, however, the New York Times reported that"
"(1992). The painting is included in a book ""100 Best Paintings in New York"" (2008). In March 2013 the US Postal Service issued a pane of twelve first-class postage stamps portraying modern art, one of which was Demuth's painting. The timing was 100 years after the Armory Show, New York, 1913, which had given many Americans their first look at modern art. The stamp set was titled Modern Art in America 1913–1931 Stamps. I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, also known as The Figure 5 in Gold, is a 1928 painting by"
"Blue Poles Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952 is an abstract expressionist painting and one of the most famous works by American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the gallery's major paintings. At the time of the painting's creation, Pollock preferred not to assign names to his works, but rather numbers; hence, the original title of the painting was simply Number 11 or No. 11 for the year 1952. In 1954, the new title ""Blue Poles"" was first seen at an exhibition at"
"The Five Senses (pair of paintings) The Five Senses are a pair of oil paintings made by Jan Brueghel the Elder and others in 1617–18, at the same time as he was working with Peter Paul Rubens on a series of five paintings on the same topic. The originals were lost in a fire in 1731; faithful copies dated to c. 1620 were preserved and are in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Brueghel, like Rubens, was at this time working in Antwerp at the court of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Isabella, governors of the Spanish Netherlands."
"created his masterpiece ""I Saw The Figure Five in Gold"" in 1928, Morton Schamberg (1881–1918) and Charles Sheeler were closely related to the Precisionist movement as well. Sheeler typically painted cityscapes and industrial architecture as exemplified by his painting ""Amoskeag Canal"" 1948. Jazz and music were improvisationally represented by Stuart Davis, as exemplified by ""Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors – 7th Avenue Style,"" from 1940. Modernism bridged the gap between the art and a socially diverse audience in the U.S. A growing number of museums and galleries aimed at bringing modernity to the general public. Despite initial resistance to the"
"hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851. In 2005 it was voted the nation's favourite painting in a poll organised by BBC Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. When Turner came to paint this picture he was at the height of his career, having exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, for 40 years. He was renowned for his highly atmospheric paintings in which he explored the subjects of the weather, the sea and the effects of light. He spent much of his life near the River Thames and did many paintings of"
"the film. In 1973, ""Number 11, 1952"" (also known as ""Blue Poles"") was purchased by the Australian Whitlam government for the National Gallery of Australia for US$2 million (A$1.3 million at the time of payment). At the time, this was the highest price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting is now one of the most popular exhibits in the gallery. It was a centerpiece of the Museum of Modern Art's 1998 retrospective in New York, the first time the painting had been shown in America since its purchase. In November 2006, Pollock's ""No. 5, 1948"" became the world's"
"at Cana"" (taste). The Five Senses (pair of paintings) The Five Senses are a pair of oil paintings made by Jan Brueghel the Elder and others in 1617–18, at the same time as he was working with Peter Paul Rubens on a series of five paintings on the same topic. The originals were lost in a fire in 1731; faithful copies dated to c. 1620 were preserved and are in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Brueghel, like Rubens, was at this time working in Antwerp at the court of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Isabella, governors of"
"No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) is a painting by the Russian-American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. It was painted in 1951. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, ""No. 6"" consists of large expanses of colour delineated by uneven, hazy shades. In 2014, it became one of the most expensive paintings sold at auction. ""No.6 (Violet, Green and Red)"" is one of the works implicated in the infamous Bouvier Affair. It was privately bought for €140 million by Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2014. Rybolovlev is thought to have bought the painting from"
"Honoré Desmond Sharrer Honoré Desmond Sharrer (July 12, 1920 – April 17, 2009) was an American artist. She first received public acclaim in 1950 for her painting ""Tribute to the American Working People"", a five-image polyptych conceived in the form of a Renaissance altarpiece, except that its central figure is a factory worker and not a saint. Flanking this central figure are smaller scenes of ordinary people—at a picnic, in a parlor, on a farm and in the schoolroom. Meticulously painted in oil on composition board in a style and color palette reminiscent of the Flemish masters, the finished work"
"Potter Centre in Federation Square in Melbourne. In 2011, ""Collins St., 5 pm"" was voted the most popular work in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Collins St., 5 pm Collins St., 5 pm is a 1955 painting by Australian artist John Brack. The painting depicts office workers walking along busy Collins Street in Melbourne after finishing work for the day""Blank-faced office workers hurry by like sleep-walkers, thinking only of the pubs or their homes in the suburbs"". Brack conceived the work after reading T. S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"". It is considered a companion piece to Brack's"
"landscape around him, and charging towards a dark skyscape. Equestrian Portrait of Charles V Equestrian Portrait of Charles V (also Emperor Charles V on Horseback or Charles V at Mühlberg) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian. Created between April and September 1548 while Titian was at the imperial court of Augsburg, it is a tribute to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, following his victory in the April 1547 Battle of Mühlberg against the Protestant armies. The portrait in part gains its impact by its directness and sense of contained power: the horse's strength seems just in"
"($41 million) supporting the Museum Kunstpalast, located next to the corporate headquarters in Düsseldorf. In 2014, E.ON decided to sell Jackson Pollock's ""Number 5 (Elegant Lady)"" (1951), a painting the company has owned since 1980, at Christie's auction to keep funding the Museum Kunstpalast. Pollock had swapped it in 1954 with New York gallery owner Martha Jackson for the convertible in which he had a fatal accident two years later. In 1980, Ulrich Hartmann, head of VEBA's corporate board office, pushed for the purchase from art dealer Alfred Schmela. The acquisition was considered the foundation for E.ON's art collection of"
"was so struck by the sight that he took paper and pencil out of his pocket and wrote the poem, standing there on the sidewalk. Two lines: ""I saw the figure 5/in gold"" were taken by Demuth for his painting's title. The upper right corner has an arc, implying a fragment of a large number five, repeated three times in progressively smaller, complete number fives to create an impression of the fire engine moving away from the viewer. The fire engine itself is reduced to an abstracted form composed of red rectangles, but there is a hint of a ladder"
"Collins St., 5 pm Collins St., 5 pm is a 1955 painting by Australian artist John Brack. The painting depicts office workers walking along busy Collins Street in Melbourne after finishing work for the day""Blank-faced office workers hurry by like sleep-walkers, thinking only of the pubs or their homes in the suburbs"". Brack conceived the work after reading T. S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"". It is considered a companion piece to Brack's earlier work ""The Bar"". The painting was purchased from Peter Bray Gallery for the National Gallery of Victoria's permanent Australian art collection and is exhibited in the Ian"
"""Demuth's famous visionary accounting of Williams, ""I Saw the Figure Five in Gold"", [is] a painting whose title and medallion-like arrangement of angled forms were both inspired by a verse the poet wrote after watching a fire engine streak past him on a rainy Manhattan street while waiting for Marsden Hartley, whose studio he was visiting, to answer his door."" Describing its importance, Judith H. Dobrzynski in ""The Wall Street Journal"" wrote: ""It's the best work in a genre Demuth created, the ""poster portrait"". It's a witty homage to his close friend, the poet William Carlos Williams, and a transliteration"
"Equestrian Portrait of Charles V Equestrian Portrait of Charles V (also Emperor Charles V on Horseback or Charles V at Mühlberg) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian. Created between April and September 1548 while Titian was at the imperial court of Augsburg, it is a tribute to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, following his victory in the April 1547 Battle of Mühlberg against the Protestant armies. The portrait in part gains its impact by its directness and sense of contained power: the horse's strength seems just in check, and Charles' brilliantly shining armour and the painting's"
"Christian and Cherise Moueix, proprietors of the prestigious wine-estate, Château Pétrus, via the Swiss dealer, Bouvier. Rybolovlev learnt that Bouvier had actually bought the painting (rather than simply acting as a dealer) from Christian and Cherise Moueix for ~€80,000,000 before selling it on to Rybolovlev for €140,000,000. No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) is a painting by the Russian-American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. It was painted in 1951. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, ""No. 6"" consists of large expanses of colour delineated by uneven, hazy shades. In 2014, it"
"In his November 1952 exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York City Pollock showed ""Number 12, 1952"", a large, masterful stain painting that resembles a brightly colored stained landscape (with an overlay of broadly dripped dark paint); the painting was acquired from the exhibition by Nelson Rockefeller for his personal collection. In 1960 the painting was severely damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion in Albany that also severely damaged an Arshile Gorky painting and several other works in the Rockefeller collection. However, by 1999 it had been restored and was installed in Albany Mall. While Arshile Gorky"
"aesthetically, to the violent and grotesque ""Women"" series of Willem de Kooning. ""Woman V"" is one of a series of six paintings made by de Kooning between 1950 and 1953 that depict a three-quarter-length female figure. He began the first of these paintings, ""Woman I,"" collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in June 1950, repeatedly changing and painting out the image until January or February 1952, when the painting was abandoned unfinished. The art historian Meyer Schapiro saw the painting in de Kooning's studio soon afterwards and encouraged the artist to persist. De Kooning's response was to"
"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"
"sold to David Geffen after 1990 at a substantial loss. In September 2015 Geffen sold ""Interchange"" for $300 million to hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin. ""Interchange"", along with some other examples of de Kooning's paintings have been sold in the 21st century for near record prices. In November 2006, David Geffen sold his oil painting ""Woman III"" to Steven A. Cohen for $137.5 million, just below the record at the time of $140 million, which involved the same people in the same month for Jackson Pollock's ""No. 5, 1948"". A month earlier Cohen had already paid Geffen $63.5 million for"
"sides of the canvas. Pollock gave the painting the title ""Number 30"", and it was exhibited under that name at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951, and at the Museum of Modern Art as part of its ""15 Americans"" exhibition in 1952. From 1947 to 1952, Pollock gave his works numbers rather than titles in order not to distract viewers with implied meanings. The numbered titles do not appear to correspond to the sequence in which works were made. When the picture was shown at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1955, it carried the title ""Autumn Rhythm"" with no reference"
"in what he calls a ""3-point-match"". However, in a June 2008 article in ""ARTnews"", Sylvia Hochfield cited two forensic experts who called into question Biro's fingerprint analysis; similar concerns were raised in July 2010 by David Grann in an article for ""The New Yorker"". In a pivotal point in the film, Horton's painting is compared side-by-side with Pollock's ""No. 5, 1948"", a drip painting once owned by Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr., CEO of Advance Publications, owner of Condé Nast, publisher of ""The New Yorker"". Horton then approached Tod Volpe, an art market trendsetter and former high-profile dealer, after reading his"
"major work of 1950s abstract expressionism, and its significance in Australian politics and history. Estimates of the painting's present value vary widely, from $100 million to $350 million, but its increased value has at least shown it to have been a worthwhile purchase from a financial point of view. Blue Poles Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952 is an abstract expressionist painting and one of the most famous works by American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the gallery's major paintings. At the"
"paint by number works dating back to the 1950s from eBay and other American collectors to create the Paint By Number Museum, the world's largest online archive of paint by number works.In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York accepted four early designs of paint by number by Max Klein for its Department of Architecture and Design, donated by Jacquelyn Schiffman. In May 2011, Dan Robbins and Palmer Paint Products, Inc., together developed and brought to market a new 60th-anniversary paint by number set. This collectors' set was created in memory of the survivors and those who had"
"is attributed to Daniel Mytens, the elder, by the catalogue, of 1867, of the Rotterdam Museum, where it has been since its removal from the Old Men's Home in 1849. It is dated 1653, and represents 'Five Governors, clothed in black, ranged round a table.' (See Obreen's ' Archief voor Nederlandsche Kunstgeschiedenis,' vol. I.) Today several of his works hang in the Historisch Museum Rotterdam. Attribution: Jan Daemen Cool Jan Daemen Cool (1589, Rotterdam – 1660, Rotterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to the RKD he was probably a pupil of the painter Daemen Cool. He married in"