Who is Jackson Pollock?
Wiki says Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. He was married to noted abstract painter Lee Krasner. From: Cody, Wyoming Died: Springs, New York August 11, 1956 (aged 44) (10 p.m.) Field: Painter Training: Art Students League of New York Movement: Abstract expressionism Patrons: Peggy Guggenheim ———————————————— “Pollock’s One: Number 31, 1950 occupies an entire wall by itself at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City”. See a cool pic of it on Flickr. ———————————————— MoMa has this whole walk through available online titled “Jackson Pollock November 1, 1998 to February 2, 1999”. Go here, click on the text noted above and start the tour which begins with the following: More than any other single painter, Jackson Pollock demonstrated that American artists had at last equaled if not surpassed their European coun
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son of LeRoy McCoy Pollock and Stella McClure Pollock. His father was a farmer and later a surveyor. In his later life, Pollock would claim that the panoramic American landscapes he saw as a child were an influence on his paintings. After attending Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, California, Pollock enrolled at the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied under Regionalist painter, Thomas Hart Benton. In Benton’s class, Pollock learned the basics of drawing and composition. He also studied mural painting and analyzed the works of the old masters. Surrealist artists such as Miro and Picasso were an influence on the young Jackson Pollock. Another influence was the Mexican muralist, David Alfaro Siqueiros. In 1936, Siqueiros taught at an experimental workshop in New York. It was there that Jackson Pollock first encountered the artistic techniques for which he is most famously known — th
