who was jackson pollock influenced by
A possible influence on Pollock was the work of the Ukrainian American artist Janet Sobel (1894â1968) (born Jennie Lechovsky). Peggy Guggenheim included Sobel's work in her The Art of This Century Gallery in 1945.With Jackson Pollock, the critic Clement Greenberg saw Sobel's work there in 1946.n 2000, the biographical film Pollock, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, directed by and starring Ed Harris, was released.