The Essential Jackson Pollock By Justin Spring In 1912‚ Jackson was born into a Scottish-Irish working class family from Cody‚ Wyoming. It’s a little known fact that Pollock was an alcoholic‚ and had struggles with mental issues‚ including depression. Many of his most famous painting‚ including his splatter paintings that gained him notoriety‚ were done while under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol was the cause behind much of his art‚ but it was also the cause of his death. On August 11
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Jackson Pollock was a very well known artist known for his abstract work. Pollock was born on January 28‚ 1912‚ in Wyoming. Throughout the early stages of Pollock’s life‚ his family moved all around different parts of the west. Pollock’s father who was abusive and an alcoholic left his family when he was just eight years old. Jackson Pollock’s older brother Charles stepped in and acted as a father to Jackson. Charles was an artist himself and influenced Jackson in a big way. He enrolled in a Manual
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that one being‚ Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock is an important figure in the art world. He is known for starting a movement of abstract expressionism by using his body and motion to create huge pieces of art on large canvases. However‚ his leap from abstract art to figurative took us all by the reins into a new direction of who Jackson Pollock was and is. Jackson Pollock figurative works are representational but also show a deeper meaning and metaphor hiding within. Jackson Pollock rose into fame
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The dominant figure that steered the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the infamous painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody‚ Wyoming on January 28‚ 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock’s artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles‚ California where he joined two of his brothers. From there‚ he went on to New York to attend
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abstract artists such as Jackson Pollock. Critics of Pollock claim that his drip painting style is lazy and uncreative: not art. As a fellow artist I find these claims outrageous and uneducated. I personally believe that Jackson Pollock was an amazing artist and deserved every ounce of fame he got. Art is subjective‚ there is no right or wrong way to make art. Being and artist is about expressing oneself through any medium; whether it be music‚ painting‚ drawing‚ singing‚ etc. Pollock expressed himself
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The expressionist artist whose work I admire the most is artist‚ Jackson Pollock. He is an outstanding artist‚ one of the most famous if not the most famous abstract expressionist of his time. Jackson Pollock was born on the 28th of January‚ in Cody‚ Wyoming. Pollock’s childhood was a hard one because his family was always moving‚ his dad was an alcoholic and he was the youngest of all four of his brothers. He discovered his passion for art when he moved to Los Angeles‚ California‚ there he attended
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It was a bit more difficult to leave the actual result up to chance like Pollock‚ but Cage still found ways to let his choices be met by chance. In his music‚ each piece had its own sound. Some pieces were repetitive and used little variation in tone or pitch‚ while others used only the sound of a piano-key cover closing. He has
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Pollock’s drip art became a sensational hit in the mid 1940’s amidst the time of post-Great Depression. Unlike Van Gogh‚ Pollock’s work gained fame for his technique and style with his background life‚ gaining little attention in his pathway to fame. Pollock himself stated that over time‚ his passive nature towards his own art led to the beginning of his numbering of canvases instead of the routine naming of pieces because he wished to stray from the regular style of representational art. From works such
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This article entails a biography on Jackson Pollock and how he created some of his works of art to the way he lived his day to day life. Number 17a was created in 1948 with oil paints on fiberboard. Pollock used unusual tools to paint this painting‚ tools such as trowels‚ shovels‚ or other non-contemporary tools. Biographical information on Jackson Pollock in this article originated from texts written by Betty Parsons. Parsons texts teach us about Pollocks personal life‚ how he lived or how he
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Paul Jackson Pollock was a splatter painter. People started calling him by his middle name Jackson. He was born January 28‚ 1912 in Cody‚ Wyoming. When he was little he had a hard child life. His family moved around‚ but he then found out what native art was when his family moved to Phoenix. Jackson would put paint on a paint brush or on his fingers and would just fling it around which made it very expressive He would lay down long white papers and would throw paint all around. This was a way he
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