As a lead up to our year6/7 trip to Canberra students from Ms Whelan and
Mr. Zampogna’s have been researching artists who have pieces of work on display in the National Art Gallery. One such artist we investigated was Jackson Pollock who painted Blue Poles! This created a great deal of controversy at the time! It also created a great deal of interest amongst our students. Why and how was it painted? What is the significance of the artwork and what does it symbolise? Why were only certain colours used by the artist? These were some of the questions students came up with as a result of shared conversations. Students were then given the opportunity to create their own version of Blue Poles. The final product is on display for viewing in the hallway next to the computer room. We are yet to put a price tag on our Blue Poles however all offers are welcome! We have asked our students to make some comments below. We welcome your comments too.
August 3, 2015 at 1:50 am
I cant wait until we go to Canberra to see what the real blue poles actually look like.
August 3, 2015 at 1:52 am
I enjoyed doing the blue poles and cant wait to see the real one at canberra.
August 3, 2015 at 1:55 am
I didn’t know that the colours he mostly used were white orange red yellow and blue
August 3, 2015 at 1:56 am
I didn’t know about blue poles before we did the painting. I learnt that another name for blue poles is number 11.I cant wait to see the real one at Canberra.
August 3, 2015 at 1:57 am
i really enjoyed doing the blue poles . i learned that the blue poles is also called number 11 . which i didn’t no anything about it until we learned about it in class. i cant wait to see the blue poles in real life
August 3, 2015 at 2:00 am
I just learnt that the blue poles are also known as Number 11
August 3, 2015 at 2:01 am
I cant wait to go to Canberra later this term and see the real blue poles painting. I found out that that Jackson Pollock used layers to do his painting. The blue poles is also known as number 11.
August 3, 2015 at 2:01 am
I did not know that the National Gallery of Art purchased the Blue Poles for $1.3 million in 1973.
August 3, 2015 at 2:01 am
I never knew that he used broken glass to do some of the painting
August 3, 2015 at 2:03 am
I enjoyed creating the blue poles painting trying to get the same affect of Jackson Pollock’s painting from 1952 also known as number 11, I cant wait to go to Canberra to see the real blue poles.
August 3, 2015 at 2:03 am
I didn’t know and was interested to find that Blue Poles cost $1.3 million dollars. I am looking forward to seeing Blue Poles at the National Art Gallery.
August 3, 2015 at 2:04 am
they look great it is amazing that it cost 1million dollars at first and it was a shame I didn’t get to do it.
August 3, 2015 at 2:04 am
Studying Jackson Pollock, and his painting Blue Poles, was a really interesting topic for our classes, and it was even more exciting, when we had to try and create our own version of it. One thing I learned about Blue Poles, was that when The National Art Gallery in Canberra purchased the painting, it caused a lot of controversy in the Australian media, because people didn’t understand why they payed so much money, for what they thought wasn’t worth much in value.
August 3, 2015 at 2:05 am
I never knew that he used layers of paint; or that he used broken shards of glass, or used pieces of wood for the poles.
August 3, 2015 at 2:12 am
I can’t believe the value of the blue poles is from $20 million to $100 million. I really enjoyed creating blue poles.
August 3, 2015 at 2:12 am
I’m surprised that some people think that Blue Poles is a marker of the flourishing of the abstract expressionist movement in the 1950s New York.
August 3, 2015 at 2:13 am
I didn’t know anything about the blue poles before we learnt about artists and their art work, in this case it was Jackson Pollock. In 1952 the blue poles was titled ‘Number 11 1952’.
August 3, 2015 at 2:13 am
I just found out that the Blue Poles was painted in 1952 and the artist was Jackson Pollock. I can’t wait to see the real thing! =]
August 3, 2015 at 2:14 am
I found out that the painting was criticised by many people, many thought it was made by a child.
August 3, 2015 at 2:16 am
I didn’t know that blue poles was painted in 1952. I can not wait to see the real thing.
August 3, 2015 at 5:58 am
I didn’t know that putting blobs of paint on a page would be so difficult!
August 3, 2015 at 6:41 am
I really enjoyed creating the Blue Poles (well my creation).
The best part was probably throwing paint around on cardboard.
August 3, 2015 at 8:16 am
The blur poles is a very interesting piece of art work it’s also called 11 and we did our own blue poles very fun and interesting
August 3, 2015 at 9:43 am
This artwork was fun and enjoyable, but not only that I have learnt many more things to do with Blue Poles and Jackson Pollock. Blue poles was a canvas that was painted black at first then was splashed with wall paint in the colours of orange, white and yellow. Blue strips of paint was then painted on to represent the blue poles. This peice of art work caused a lot of controversy at the time and now is in the Canberra art gallery which I can’t wait to see!
August 3, 2015 at 10:20 am
What I lernt about BLUE POLES…
.Its location is in the National Gallery of Australia
.It is 2.10m x 4.9 m
.It called Blue Poles and number 11
.The support of the painting is canvas
.The paint is oil paint
.The painting was out up in 1952
August 3, 2015 at 11:32 am
I’m so excited to see the real thing in Canberra and to see the actual size of it! I was so surprised when I found out that the painting was 2×5 metres long!
August 4, 2015 at 5:37 am
When we painted them we only used: blue,black,yellow,white but no pink, green ,purple or brown.
August 4, 2015 at 7:41 am
Blue Poles was painted by Jackson Pollock in 1952.
It is now displayed in the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
I can’t wait to see what the real blue poles looks like in real life.
August 4, 2015 at 9:02 am
It was really interesting learning about Jackson pollock and his blue poles. I learnt that it is also called number 11 and that it’s worth 3.3 million dollars.
August 4, 2015 at 9:22 am
I was glad that we did these paintings ourselves because I’ve realised that it’s not easy to flick the paint from the brush onto the paper. Jason pollock must have worked for ages to be able to fill up a canvas of 2×5 meters by just flicking a paint brush. I’m looking forward to seeing the real Blue Poles in Canberra so that the next time I do a painting like this I might be a bit better at it.
August 5, 2015 at 10:06 am
The experience of creating our own version of Blue Poles by Jason Pollock was amazing. The real life version of Blue Poles is massive! It will be very interesting to see the actual artwork in Canberra when we go. We already know so much about it due to the research we did leading up to creating our own. Over all it was just great to be able to look into Jason Pollock and find out some information about one of his most famous pieces of artwork.
August 5, 2015 at 10:50 am
I Can’t wait till we go to the national art gallery in Canberra to see the real blue poles. I liked the part about learning about a masterpiece from Jackson pollock, and even just painting it.
August 7, 2015 at 12:52 am
I really enjoyed learning about blue poles and making it ourselves. I can’t wait to see in Canberra I can’t believe that it is 2m by 5m!
August 7, 2015 at 12:52 am
The blue poles was amazing to create.There is a lot of colours evolved to make this creation. The blue poles cost about 3.3 million.I cant wait to see the real thing right in front of me.
August 7, 2015 at 12:53 am
Can’t wait to go to Canberra to see the real Blue Poles.
It was a lot of fun painting the Blue Poles. An Amazing Painting by Jackson Pollock. The spectator shed has a new floor colour.
August 7, 2015 at 8:02 am
I loved making blue poles by Jackson Pollock. I still can’t believe he made this picture as big as that so quickly. I hope we can do more again sometime.
August 7, 2015 at 8:04 am
It will be so good when we will see the real blue poles
At the art gallery in Canberra I wish I was there to do the blue poles at school
August 7, 2015 at 8:52 pm
I can’t wait to go to Canberra and see the real Blue Poles. At the start I thought it would be another boring piece of artwork to paint but when we started to do it, it was a lot more fun
August 9, 2015 at 11:46 am
I really enjoyed the hole experience of creating our own blue poles. Although it was a little messy both mr. Z and mrs whelans class had heaps of fun. Being able to socialize with friends while creating your own version of the blue poles is just so much fun. I’m hoping to do more enjoyable work like this leading up to our Canberra trip.
August 12, 2015 at 7:45 am
The blue poles lesson was a creative and colourful day
I really enjoyed seeing the paintings when they were finished because everyone used the exact same technique but all of them turned out differently. Although I won’t be able to see the painting in person I really enjoyed learning about Blue Poles and Jackson Pollock.
August 13, 2015 at 12:18 am
I think these questions are very deep meaning you need to reserch them and not just of the top of your head. I also think the paintings are exelent.
August 13, 2015 at 2:52 am
I had fun doing the painting of the Blue Pols and I can’t wait to go to Canberra.
August 15, 2015 at 3:10 am
The blue poles look excellent and you all did a very good job.
August 26, 2015 at 11:12 am
I think it looks as good as the original. What great artists you all are.