kamil lhoták
Jackson Pollock: A Revolutionary of American Abstraction Born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, Paul Jackson Pollock—as he was initially known—emerged from a transient childhood marked by frequent moves across the American West and Southwest. His family’s itinerant existence, rooted in Scotch-Irish heritage and shaped by his father's service in the Boer War, instilled within him a restless spirit and an acute awareness of movement and change. This early life, characterized by instability and a deep connection to the landscape, would profoundly influence his artistic vision, shaping a career dedicat…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of kamil lhoták's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.