What medium does AEU document for One: Number 31, 1950?

AEU preserves the catalog medium as “Oil and enamel paint on canvas.” Structured material links are stored separately and are not inferred by parsing that phrase.

Artwork record / rights-aware

One: Number 31, 1950

Jackson Pollock · 1950

Catalog medium: Oil and enamel paint on canvas
Collection: The Museum of Modern Art
Accession: 7.1968

Physical record

Scale without reproducing the image

Metric: 269.5 × 530.8 cm
Approx. imperial: 8 ft 10.1 in × 17 ft 5 in
Planar area (calculated): 14.31 m²
Width / 170 cm reference: 3.12×
Height / 170 cm reference: 1.59×

Imperial dimensions, planar area, and 170 cm reference ratios are interface calculations from documented metric dimensions, not source claims, artwork-shape reconstructions, or quality judgments.

Image decision: Bundled display blocked by copyrighted_no_license/metadata_only.

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Structured relationships

Process, material, form, ideas

Techniques

Pour, drip, and flingtechnique

Materials

Oil paintmaterial
Enamel paintmaterial
Canvasmaterial

Structured materials appear only through an explicit mapping relationship in the validated corpus; AEU does not infer normalized materials by parsing the catalog medium text.

Formal properties

Allover fieldformal property
Monumental scaleformal property

Concepts

Chance and controlconcept

Claims / interpretation

Evidence with its type exposed

A source interpretation is not silently rewritten as an uncontested fact. Contested positions remain side by side.

process used

The work was made with canvas on the floor and paint applied by pouring, dribbling, and flicking/flinging.

Evidence sources (1)

Jackson Pollock. One: Number 31, 1950. 1950 ↗

Relationship graph

Process as structuretendency · artwork relates to tendency
Field and bodily scaletendency · artwork relates to tendency
Abstract Expressionist New Yorkexhibition · artwork exhibited in

Documented path / mapping basis exposed

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Object → maker

Jackson Pollockartist/date identity lineBasis: Object identity on this record.

Material & process

Pour, drip, and flingtechniqueBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.
Oil paintmaterialBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.
Enamel paintmaterialBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.
CanvasmaterialBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.

Formal & thematic

Allover fieldformal propertyBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.
Monumental scaleformal propertyBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.
Chance and controlconceptBasis: Explicit structured mapping rendered on this object record.
Process as structuretendency · artwork relates to tendencyBasis: AEU graph edge rendered on this object record.
Field and bodily scaletendency · artwork relates to tendencyBasis: AEU graph edge rendered on this object record.

Exhibition, place & history

Abstract Expressionist New Yorkexhibition · artwork exhibited inBasis: AEU graph edge rendered on this object record.
Place this date on the AEU timeline1950Basis: Object date used for navigation only; not an influence or exhibition claim.

Close Look

Close-looking guideobservation → interpretationBasis: Companion route for this same object record.

Source register

Direct record sources

Jackson Pollock. One: Number 31, 1950. 1950museum collection · authority tier 1 · verified 2026-09-09
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