Jackson Pollock

  • Born January 28, 1912- Wyoming
  • Moved to New York and studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York
  • Was an alcoholic and underwent Jungian psychotherapy- speculated that maybe it was because he moved around a lot during his childhood
  • Married American painter Lee Krasner
  • Most known for abstract art. Pollock apprenticed by an artist by the name of David Siqueiros and was a major influence for Pollock’s famous “drip technique.”
  • He would lay a huge canvas on the floor and drip paint on it using sticks, basters, or holes in a paint can.
  • “Action Painting”- walk around the canvas on the floor with steps that were dance-like.
  • One of his most famous paintings- “Lavender Mist” is described as: “a work unsurpassed in terms of linear complexity, energy­charged suspense, and coloristic brilliance.
  • Had a relapse in alcoholism, drove drunk, crashed into a tree, and died in 1956
  • His work brought together elements of Cubism, Surrealism, and Impressionism, and transcended them all.

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