Jackson Pollock?

Question

i need strait info. on jackson pollock.the artist. like a biargaphy. his whole life i need to know. like any improtant dates...?

Answer 1

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement.

Early life
The youngest of five sons, Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, and grew up in Arizona and California, studying at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School. In 1930, following his brother Charles, he moved to New York City, where they both studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Benton's influence on Pollock's formative work can be seen in his use of curvilinear undulating rhythms and in the use of rural American subject matter.

Early work
Pollock's early representational work was influenced by Benton, and the Mexican Muralists Siqueiros and Orozco. He worked in Siqueiros's experimental workshop in New York City in 1936. After visiting exhibitions of Picasso and Surrealist Art, his work became increasingly symbolic. He worked on the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943. Pollock's first solo show was held at the Peggy Guggenheim The Art of This Century Gallery in New York in 1943.

Pollock had for several years been treated by psychiatrists for alcoholism and depression and this gave him an interest in Carl Jung's theory of primitive archetypes that formed the basis of his work between 1938 and 1944. These works were often enigmatic and were not well received at first.

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Answer 2

They spelt his name wrong at birth - I do not like Pollock, they do nothing for me, but the CIA was backing him - they did not want the likes of Degas Rivera - a communist to be the image of America, and they did not have any other native born Americans at the time they picked him. Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein came along too late to get the government funding.

Answer 3

Try a search on any of the search engines. He was a major artist and there should be a ton of info on him.

Answer 4

Wikipedia has quite a bit of info and links to other sites.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_129.html

http://www.kaliweb.com/jacksonpollock/