For some unknown reason this painting somehow always hits me right in the feels.
Here is a higher resolution photo: https://www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/art-1959.6-pollock-no-border.jpg
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Once upon a time I took a whole course on Pollock and his mentorship / inspiration under Thomas Hart Benton. A lot of his earlier work was figurative with flowing shapes and forms, much like Benton's, before he went more abstract. This one is definitely a crowd of dancing figures IMO.
Pollock sometimes incorporated his signature into the painting as well, though in this one it's just at the bottom.
The dance of life...
Afaik the signature wasn't originally on the painting and was added years later.
Maybe there is another hidden signature somewhere in it.
That's entirely possible.
The style and rhythm is fully there, now it's just a matter of figuring out that next step of dripping the paint instead of applying it with brush pressure.