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Biographical Information:
Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming in 1912 and died on Long Island, New York in 1956.
He was a leader of the New York action painters and a major contributor to Abstract Expressionism. He studied from 1929-1931 at the Art Students League in New York City and started working on government art projects in the late 1930s.
Abstract Expressionism is characterized by a lack of representation and by an emotional approach to concept and execution. The movement is often called "The New York School" or "action painting". Its art results from the fusion of various influences, notably surrealism, synthetic cubism, and neoplasticisim.
Pollock's early abstract style is seen in "The She-Wolf" (1943) and "Eyes in the Heat" (1946). His technique, which for several years involved the dripping and spattering of paint upon the surface rather than the conventional mode of brushing. By 1947 Pollock started to experiment with all-over painting, a labyrinth of lines, splatters, and paint drips from which emerged the great "drip" or "poured" paintings of the next few years. "Number 1 (Lavender Mist)" (1950) is one of his most beautiful drip paintings, with its intricate web of oil colors mixed with black enamel and aluminum paint.
Pollock quickly became an international symbol of the new American painting following World War II: he came from out West, became a huge force on the New York art scene, living hard, drinking hard, and then dying violently in a car accident at a young age. He achieved a stature of mythic proportions in the 1950s. He was married to the Brooklyn-born painter Lee Krasner (1908-1984).
Action Painting referred to an artistic style in which the process of painting was as important as the completed picture. In Pollock's paintings the elements of intuition and accident play a large and deliberate part, that being one of the major contributions of Abstract Expressionism, which had found its own inspiration in Surrealism's psychic automatism. At the same time, however, Pollock relied on his skills acquired by years of practice and reflection.
In the mid 1950s, Pollock experienced a period of crisis and doubt, which lead to major depression, as a result of the success of his drip paintings .He changed his style to return to traditional brush painting. The black-and-white canvases and the paintings that followed his depression suggested a new phase, unfortunately terminated by Pollock's accidental death in 1956.
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Artists Works:
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...more works by Pollock, Jackson
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Museum Resources:
Vietnam Combat Art
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Commercial Resources:
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
VERED GALLERY
VERED GALLERY
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In the News:
Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Jackson Pollock: Works from the MoMA and European Collections
Last Chance! Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Exhibition Reveals Lee Krasner’s Crucial Contributions to Modern Art
Gestures: Postwar American and European Abstraction from the Permanent Collection
Susan Rothenberg:
Paintings from the Nineties
Mondrian Painting Acquired from the Original Owners
SUPERMODEL
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Related Information:
Jean's art/greeting_cards/silk homepage
Matilde Pollock Image Gallery
Modernism
Vietnam Combat Art
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