Me, Myself And I | Interactive Media Blog Interactive Media Blog Me, Myself And I Abstract Expressionism Around World War II ”Abstract Expressionism” this was the first biggest movement that influenced the world that grew from new york city. The style of the movement is expressed through a canvas of paint shown with emotional intensity, such as Jack Pollocks work he uses the drip paint technique where he lays his canvas on the and puts different sorts of materials onto the canvas. Pollocks work spoke another language to his audience who saw his work different to other artist. Pollock portrayed ”body language”. The name of the (Abstract movement) became real popular around the 1940s many up coming artist developed and evolved their own style expressing their way of understanding of abstract art. This occurred around World War II, poets, artist and writers fled to Europe more importantly the United States (New York ), this was the era of great Abstract Art. Action Painting Grew around the 1960s, the technique for action painting is sharp and has a lot of movement on the canvas.

Action painting was under the abstract movement many artist like Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning tried to portray something different to the viewers, but most of them were confused and sympathetic towards their work, so many of these artist polluted in New York and had different backgrounds and styles to their work. Pollocks and Franze Kilnes work focused on less imagery on their paintings, they came across the name ”Action painter”. This changed Art itself, that it can convey in a different way communicating to one another, expressing emotion. Mostly these artist will show a strong personal feeling towards their work or their experiences in day to day life. Color Field Painting Is also a style of abstract that developed around in New York City around the 1940s and 50s, the style of color field painting is usually made with large blocks of solid flat paint also expressing emotion in less action on the canvas and movement. Color field painting emerged all around Europe from GB, Canada, Washington DC and West Coast Of United States. Mostly young artist started to join this movement, so many artist made many more painting testing new colors experimenting with canvases.

Color Field painting related to Abstract painting because they had the same persona in emotion conveying it towards viewers through their art work, Rothko’s Art work accomplished these emotions and not the only difference is that the artist had different handling to each other and you could see that in their paintings. The Big names to Color Field painting are ‘Mark Rothko’,Kenneth Noland, Barnett Newman who made a stand to the abstract world. Rothko’s work portrayed the basic simple human emotions, color field painting pointed a new direction towards American art and abstract expressionism to the world. This lead to people to there work standing out to other artist, Rothko’s work amazed and shocked critiques because of the fact that his work was so and is today is so powerful to the human brain and the human eye. Mark Rothko Was born September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970, Rothko was an Russian-American who was brought up in a Jewish home. At the 1920s Rothko started to look for work in New York and started looking at art as one of his ambitions in life, he enrolled for an art school this gave Rothko a clear view of his path.

He later on moved to New York since his enrollment to the school art school, Rothko pioneered to the top and his work was also up in display along with other young artist in museums. The group name for his work was called ‘opportunity gallery’ his work portrayed a dark, moody, urban tone in his work, but Rothko still didn’t think that his work was enough, he changed his career for the short term and worked as a teacher teaching students how to use clay and painting he remained at the school till 1952. Rothko’s creation around 1946 his work was a new era to abstract art, critiques used the term multiform towards his work. The number of masterpieces Rothko created that included No. 18 and Untitled (1948). These paintings were a big part to Rothko’s life; he described his paintings as a possession to him. Again, Rothko’s mission was to aim at viewers was to succeed and execute methods of human emotion ‘’ A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it out into the world.

How often into the world. How often it must be permanently impaired by the eyes of the vulgar and the cruelty of the impotent who extend the affliction universally!’’ – Mark Rothko Rothko’s reaction towards to his increasing success, he felt confused and disturbed of the fact that he wasn’t understood as an artist. He was worried of the idea that people will buy his work out of fashion, he wanted his work to be moved by viewers and it to change abstract expressionism to a different level. Rothko disliked the idea of being a abstract artist but otherwise a great colorist. ” Only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions . . . The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationship, then you miss the point.” The restaurant the four seasons awarded Rothko to do big major two murals for the restaurant, this was also a challenge for Rothko.

During the three months he completed the murals and in addition forty paintings ” Something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room. If the restaurant would refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment. But they won’t. People can stand anything these days” – Mark Rothko He made a agreement on hanging the painting for the new building. Rothko was angry and upset with the atmosphere at the dining place and stopped his work with the four seasons. Rothko kept his paintings till 1968, after the series of events he never explained his emotions of the Seagram Murals. At today’s era Rothko’s murals hang in three locations Tate Modern, Kawamura Memorial Museum and the National Art Gallery in Washington DC. Rothko continued to drink and smoke heavily during his troubled marriage and avoided advice and help from doctors, February 25, 1970, Rothko’s assistant (Oliver Steindecker) found him dead on the floor near the kitchen sink. He was 66 years old and his Seagram murals was sent to London for display at the very day of his suicide.

Four Darks In Red (1958, Whitney Museum Of Art ” Only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions . . . The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their colour relationship, then you miss the point ” – Mark Rothko The image explores a dark, warm, emptiness. The way Rothko painted the bottom half of the picture with quickness and didn’t proper colour fill in that half shows also a bit of anger, revenge, this will immediately catch the viewer’s eyes connecting to their emotion, feeling either tragedy, ecstasy or doom and so on through his work. The colour black emphasis loneliness or despair in Rothko’s life showing viewers what he’s been through or to somehow understand his art, the blocks of colour that separates from each other rarely blend in with the other blocks of colour to magnify the emotion or a characteristic of Mark Rothko.

This stage of Rothko’s art work got dark before his murals were brighter and calm colours; these were effects of his life was later on portrayed on his murals, but I personally prefer Rothko’s work to Pollock’s because his work reaches to me and it’s an easier understanding to the theory of his art work. When I saw this piece of artwork painted by Mark Rothko, this made me feel his feelings and emotion of peace and calmness. The orange expresses to me the calmness of the sun by looking at how relaxing it sits under the yellow. Another painting here that portrays Rothko’s frustration of letting out violence and revenge. The way he uses the dark range of green to show revenge and its spitefulness of it and the yellow shows the mellow violence of it. As time goes past and years in his paintings u start to notice how he feels and the way he portrays his artwork. As you can see hear Rothko shows signs of jealousy and the orange and yellow representing the humbleness trying to close down the purple jealousy in his painting.

Jackson Pollock (Paul) Jackson Pollock was born January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 was a very influential American painter and a major role model around the abstract expressionism era, drip painting. Pollock was born in Cody Wyoming; he was the youngest of his five siblings (sons). He was later adopted after his parents have passed away; he then grew up in a farm in Arizona and Chico. LeRoy Pollock started high school at Los Angele’s Manual Arts High School…he was later expelled. In the 30s LeRoy and his older brother Charles Pollock travelled to New York City and studied at ‘Thomas Hart Benton’ at the (Art Students League of New York), where (Jackson) Pollock worked for the ‘Federal Art Project’. At times Pollock (Jackson) will go to the pub and have a round of drinks struggling to control himself, later 1941 Pollock needed to fight his alcoholism. October 1945, Pollock married a painter like himself Lee Krasner, a month later to their house named Pollock-Krasner House and Studio.

His Legacy started when he technically worked with paint and his work was identified. Pollock was later introduced to the use of liquid painting at a workshop in New York City. He later started paint pouring as one of his several techniques on canvas on the floor at the studio and developed the technique and later called it ‘drip’ technique. Pollock started to achieve the means of creating Art, his work originated from (Action painting). Pollock blew up and was advertised and was the talk of the town he was known as ‘Jack the Dripper’ because of his unique style of painting. “ My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the upstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. I continue to get further away from the usual painters tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It is only after a sort of ‘get acquainted’ period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. – Jackson Pollock Pollock’s Number 8 This painting pollock created with the technique action painting to me as an artist portrays greed and loneliness. As you can see the orange presents the loneliness as you can not really take notice of the orange, while the greed (green) is eating mostly the other motions hes having during that period of time of painting the piece. Jackson Pollock’s Number 1 This is one of my Favorite pieces of Pollock’s artwork, that when I look at it, it gives me a neutral feeling there’s no hidden emotions behind it and i find that the colours he used to tell the audience that journey is truly remarkable. What gave me this idea was the way the cool green reminds me of the cool grass.

Pollock’s Number 3 The solid colours show strong emotion, this piece Pollock created looks more complex than his other murals. My Drawings How Long Does It Take To Paint An Expressionist Style Painting How Long Does It Take To Paint An Expressionist Style Painting Techniques Of The Masters: How To Paint Like An Expressionist A look at how the Expressionists used color in their paintings and how you could learn to paint in an expressive style. Kandinsky was a synaesthesiac, which would have given him an insight into colors that most people don't. Take a look at the paintings from the Van Gogh and Expression Abstract Expressionism Art History About Abstract Expressionism or "AbEx" (a.k.a. Action Painting or Color Field Painting; II with its characteristic messiness and extremely energetic applications of paint .

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was painting in a completely abstract manner, and the `drip and splash' style for Pollock would fix his canvas to the floor and drip paint from a can using a PresentDay Art And ReadyMade Styles Walter Darby Bannard Each style has its own qualities and some sort of audience. Abstract Expressionism was repudiated point by point: painting within the drawing . The means of expression in painting are paint and canvas, and "style," which springs . Of course this may take ten years and 100,000 decisions, and not many buyers will be Editor's Pick Jackson Pollock | Biography & Facts | Britannica.com Sam Francis Jackson Pollock, in full Paul Jackson Pollock (born January 28, 1912, Cody, Wyoming, U.S.—died August 11, 1956, East Hampton, New York ), American painter who was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism , an art movement characterized by the free-associative gestures in paint sometimes referred to as “ action painting .” During his lifetime he received widespread publicity and serious recognition for the radical poured, or “drip,” technique he used to create his major works.

Among his contemporaries, he was respected for his deeply personal and totally uncompromising commitment to the art of painting. His work and example had enormous influence on them and on many subsequent art movements in the United States . He is also one of the first American painters to be recognized during his lifetime and after as a peer of 20th-century European masters of modern art . Jackson Pollock painting in his studio on Long Island, New York, 1950. © Hans Namuth Early life and work Paul Jackson Pollock was the fifth and youngest son of Stella May McClure and LeRoy Pollock, who were both of Scotch-Irish extraction (LeRoy’s original surname was McCoy before his adoption about 1890 by a family named Pollock) and born and raised in Iowa . The family left Cody , Wyoming , 11 months after Jackson’s birth; he would know Cody only through family photographs. Over the next 16 years his family lived in California and Arizona , eventually moving nine times. In 1928 they moved to Los Angeles , where Pollock enrolled at Manual Arts High School. There he came under the influence of Frederick John de St.

Vrain Schwankovsky, a painter and illustrator who was also a member of the Theosophical Society , a sect that promoted metaphysical and occult spirituality. Schwankovsky gave Pollock some rudimentary training in drawing and painting, introduced him to advanced currents of European modern art, and encouraged his interest in theosophical literature. At this time Pollock, who had been raised an agnostic , also attended the camp meetings of the former messiah of the theosophists, Jiddu Krishnamurti , a personal friend of Schwankovsky. These spiritual explorations prepared him to embrace the theories of the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and the exploration of unconscious imagery in his paintings in subsequent years. In the fall of 1930 Pollock followed his brother Charles, who left home to study art in 1922, to New York City , where he enrolled at the Art Students League under his brother’s teacher, the regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton .

(Jackson dropped his first name, Paul, about the time he went to New York in 1930.) He studied life drawing, painting, and composition with Benton for the next two and one-half years, leaving the league in the early months of 1933. For the next two years Pollock lived in poverty, first with Charles and, by the fall of 1934, with his brother Sanford. He would share an apartment in Greenwich Village with Sanford and his wife until 1942. Britannica Stories Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent Pollock was employed by the WPA Federal Art Project in the fall of 1935 as an easel painter. This position gave him economic security during the remaining years of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity to develop his art. From his years with Benton through 1938, Pollock’s work was strongly influenced by the compositional methods and regionalist subject matter of his teacher and by the poetically expressionist vision of the American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder .

It consisted mostly of small landscapes and figurative scenes such as Going West (1934–35), in which Pollock utilized motifs derived from photographs of his birthplace at Cody. In 1937 Pollock began psychiatric treatment for alcoholism , and he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1938, which caused him to be institutionalized for about four months. After these experiences, his work became semiabstract and showed the assimilation of motifs from the modern Spanish artists Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró , as well as the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco . Jungian symbolism and the Surrealist exploration of the unconscious also influenced his works of this period; indeed, from 1939 through 1941 he was in treatment with two successive Jungian psychoanalysts who used Pollock’s own drawings in the therapy sessions. Characteristic paintings from this period include Bird (c. 1941), Male and Female (c. 1942), and Guardians of the Secret (1943). Coming into maturity Art & Architecture: Fact or Fiction?

In 1943, after the liquidation of the Federal Art Project, Pollock was given a contract by Peggy Guggenheim at her Art of This Century gallery in New York, and his first one-man show was held there in November. Very late in 1943, possibly in the early weeks of 1944, Pollock painted his first wall-size work, called Mural (c. 1943–44). This painting represents Pollock’s breakthrough into a totally personal style in which Benton’s compositional methods and energetic linear invention are fused with the Surrealist free association of motifs and unconscious imagery. Pollock’s evolution from this point throughout the 1940s shows a struggle to find a process by which he could translate his entire personality into painting. The figurative character of works such as Totem Lesson 1 (1944) and The Blue Unconscious (1946) contrasts with the heavily painted, all-over design of Shimmering Substance (1946) and Eyes in the Heat (1946), indicating the range of imagery and technique he employed during this period.

Britannica Lists & Quizzes Editor Picks: Exploring 10 Types of Basketball Movies In 1945 Pollock married the painter Lee Krasner and moved to East Hampton , on the southern shore of Long Island , New York. Krasner, whom Pollock respected as an artist, had already proven her ability to handle his affairs with Guggenheim. She also provided a stabilizing factor that he sorely needed, given his drinking and social awkwardness. “Poured” works In 1947 Pollock first used the process of pouring or dripping paint onto a flat canvas in stages, often alternating weeks of painting with weeks of contemplating before he finished a canvas. This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of enamel or aluminum paint. At the time, he said these abstract trajectories “veiled the image,” or the traces of figuration, that had often been apparent in his earlier work. Recent research has indicated that his “veiling” constituted a form of free association from which he began most of his major paintings. The results, in effect, were huge areas covered with complex linear patterns that fused image and form; these works engulfed the spectator in their scale and intricacy.

A whole series of paintings—beginning with Full Fathom Five (1947) and Lucifer (1947) and proceeding through Summertime (1948), Number Ten, 1949 (1949), the mural-sized canvases of 1950 such as One, Autumn Rhythm, and Lavender Mist, and the black and white Number Thirty-two, 1950 (1950)—display the infinite variety of effect and expression he achieved through the method of “poured” painting. Number 1A, 1948, oil and enamel on canvas by Jackson Pollock, 1948; in … Fine Art Images/SuperStock Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Pinterest During the late 1940s and early ’50s, Pollock had one-man shows of new paintings nearly every year in New York, his work being handled by Peggy Guggenheim through 1947, the Betty Parsons Gallery from 1947 to 1952, and finally by the Sidney Janis Gallery.

In 1951 and 1952 Pollock painted almost exclusively in black enamel on unsized canvas, creating works in which his earlier imagery is evident. The configuration in Number Twenty-three, 1951/“Frogman” (1951), for example, relates to Bird and also to drawings Pollock did for his second Jungian analyst. Other important paintings from this phase are Echo (1951) and Number Seven, 1952 (1952). In 1952 he returned to colour and mural scale in Convergence (1952) and Blue Poles (1952). He created his last series of major works in 1953; Portrait and a Dream, Easter and the Totem, Ocean Greyness, and The Deep, among other works, recapitulate many aspects of his former styles and images. Though his production waned and his health deteriorated after 1953, he did produce important paintings such as White Light (1954) and Scent (1955) in his last years. He died in an automobile accident in the summer of 1956.

Assessment As a man, Pollock was described by his contemporaries as gentle and contemplative when sober, violent when drunk. These extremes found equilibrium in his art. He was highly intelligent, widely read, and, when he chose, incisively articulate . He believed that art derived from the unconscious, saw himself as the essential subject of his painting, and judged his work and that of others on its inherent authenticity of personal expression. During his lifetime, Pollock’s critical reception ranged from the supportive criticism of Clement Greenberg in The Nation during the 1940s to Time magazine’s pejorative reference to him as “Jack the Dripper” a few months before his death in 1956. Despite occasional attempts in the art press to understand his work seriously, his name became synonymous with extreme artistic caprice , since the novelty of his “pouring” technique overshadowed his obsession with the deeply personal expression that the technique permitted. Ironically, he did not profit financially from his fame. He never sold a painting for more than $10,000 in his lifetime and was often hard-pressed for cash. His work was more appreciated abroad.

It was seen in Europe, for example, at the Venice Biennales of 1948, 1950, and 1956 and in a one-man show in Paris in 1952. In 1949 the French abstract artist Georges Mathieu stated that he considered Pollock the “greatest living American painter.” Trending Topics Opium Wars After Pollock’s death, artists active in the American art movements immediately following Abstract Expressionism—such as “happenings,” Pop art , Op art , and Colour Field painting —looked back, with more or less cause, to Pollock’s example as fundamental to their departures. For these artists, he became the model of a painter who had successfully fused art and life. For critics, however, the psychologically oriented iconography in Pollock’s work, prompted by Jungian psychotherapy and so important to Pollock and to a balanced understanding of his contribution, has generally been misunderstood or ignored.

Posthumous critical opinion and biographical scholarship, strongly influenced by Greenberg and postmodernist theory, has tended largely to emphasize the formal elements of his work and his affinities with European art movements and artists; to exploit his drinking and alleged homosexuality; and to make unwarranted claims concerning his social identity as a renegade artist or pawn of the psychoanalytic community . Now considered an “iconic” master of mid-century Modernism, he has become all things to all interpreters, often in spite of the actual facts of his art and life. Jackson Pollock - Paintings Art of Number 5 Pastel Painting * Charcoal Drawing * Pencil Sketch * Wax Crayon Painting All of art Pollock can be ordered as reproductions of oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolor painting for wall decor. You're welcome to send your own images of the famous artist to us to paint by hand as painting from photos, which is more artistic collection than those Jackson Pollock prints and posters made by machinery. You're allowed to download picture of Jackson Pollock from Toperfect's website as wallpapers. The copyright of scripts in this website is owned by Toperfect. Toperfect reserves the manual scripts of original version.

Toperfect will take appropriate legal action in the piracy and infringements of copyright. January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 Abstract expressionist movement Paul Jackson Pollock is known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter, was well known for his uniquely defined style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Jackson painter enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. Pollock artist died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident. in 1998 and 1999, Jackson Pollock art was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. In 1973, Jackson Pollock Number Number 11, titled Blue Poles, was purchased by the Australian Whitlam Government for US $2 million. In November 2006, no 5 Jackson Pollock became the world's most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of $140,000,000.

Pollock the artist wanted an end to the viewer's search for figurative elements in his paintings, and so he abandoned titles and started numbering the paintings of Jackson Pollock instead. Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a picture for what it is—pure painting. Analysis of Painting Pollock He feel nearer, more a part of the painting by Jackson Pollock, since this way he can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the art by Jackson Pollock. This is akin to the methods of the Indian sand painters of the West. Artist Pollock used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators. His technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Jackson Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the convention of painting Jackson Pollock on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to Pollock paintings from all directions.

In the process of making art Jackson Pollock in this way, he moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush. Jackson painter also moved away from the use of only the hand and wrist, since he used his whole body to paint. In 1956, Time magazine dubbed Pollock "Jack the Dripper" as a result of unique style of Pollock painting. Flinging, dripping, pouring, and spattering, he would move energetically around the Jackson Pollock Number 5, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see. The most famous paintings by Pollock were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. At the peak of his fame, Pollock abruptly abandoned the drip style. Art of Jackson Pollock after 1951 was darker in color, including a collection painted in black on unprimed paintings. This was followed by a return to color, and he reintroduced figurative elements. During this period Jackson Pollock had moved to a more commercial gallery and there was great demand from collectors for new paintings.

In response to this pressure, along with personal frustration, his alcoholism deepened. No Copyright Infringement of Toperfect's script! Jackson Pollock – Biography | Schmaltzee's World Jackson Pollock – Biography Home Page Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956), was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident. In December 1956, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967.

More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. Early Life Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, the youngest of five sons. His parents, Stella May McClure and Leroy Pollock, grew up in Tingley, Iowa. His father had been born McCoy but took the surname of his neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other. Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian; the former, Irish; the latter, Scotch-Irish. LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government. Jackson grew up in Arizona and Chico, California. While living in Echo Park, California, he enrolled at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, from which he was expelled, after having been expelled another high school in 1928. During his early life, he experienced Native American culture while on surveying trips with his father. In 1930, following his brother Charles Pollock, he moved to New York City where they both studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York.

Benton's rural American subject matter shaped Pollock's work only fleetingly, but his rhythmic use of paint and his fierce independence were more lasting influences. From 1938 to 1942, Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project. In attempts to fight his alcoholism, from 1938 through 1941 Pollock underwent Jungian psychotherapy with Dr. Joseph Henderson and later with Dr. Violet Staub de Laszlo in 1941-1942. Dr. Henderson was an eclectic who drew upon the spectrum of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud and Jung. Henderson made the decision to engage him through his art and had Pollock make drawings, which led to the appearance of many Jungian concepts in his paintings. Recently it has been hypothesized that Pollock might have had bipolar disorder. The Springs Period and the Unique Technique In October 1945 Pollock married American painter Lee Krasner, and in November they moved to what is now known as the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio, at 830 Springs Fireplace Road, in Springs on Long Island, NY.

Peggy Guggenheim lent them the down payment for the wood-frame house with a nearby barn that Pollock converted into a studio. There he perfected the technique of working with paint with which he became permanently identified. Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid paint in 1936 at an experimental workshop operated in New York City by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. He later used paint pouring as one of several techniques on canvases of the early 1940s, such as "Male and Female" and "Composition with Pouring I." After his move to Springs, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and he developed what was later called his "drip" technique, turning to synthetic resin-based paints called alkyd enamels, which, at that time, was a novel medium. Pollock described this use of household paints, instead of artist's paints, as "a natural growth out of a need." He used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators. Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting.

With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions. One possible influence on Pollock was the work of the Ukrainian American artist Janet Sobel (1894-1968) (born Jennie Lechovsky). Sobel's work is related to the so-called "drip paintings" of Jackson Pollock. Peggy Guggenheim included Sobel's work in her The Art of This Century Gallery in 1945. The critic Clement Greenberg, with Jackson Pollock, saw Sobel's work there in 1946, and in his essay "American-Type' Painting" Greenberg cited those works as the first instance of all-over painting he had seen, stating that "Pollock admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him". In the process of making paintings in this way, he moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush.

He also moved away from the use of only the hand and wrist, since he used his whole body to paint. In 1956, Time magazine dubbed Pollock "Jack the Dripper" as a result of his unique painting style. “My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting” - Jackson Pollock, My Painting “When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.

Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.” - Jackson Pollock, My Painting Pollock observed Indian sandpainting demonstrations in the 1940s. Other influences on his dripping technique include the Mexican muralists and Surrealist automatism. Pollock denied "the accident"; he usually had an idea of how he wanted a particular piece to appear. His technique combined the movement of his body, over which he had control, the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the absorption of paint into the canvas. It was a mixture of controllable and uncontrollable factors. Flinging, dripping, pouring, and spattering, he would move energetically around the canvas, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see. Studies by Taylor, Micolich and Jonas have examined Pollock's technique and have determined that some works display the properties of mathematical fractals. They assert that the works become more fractal-like chronologically through Pollock's career.

The authors even speculate that Pollock may have had an intuition of the nature of chaotic motion, and attempted to form a representation of mathematical chaos, more than ten years before "Chaos Theory" itself was proposed. Other experts suggest that Pollock may have merely imitated popular theories of the time in order to give his paintings a depth not previously seen. The 1950s Pollock's most famous paintings were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. He rocketed to popular status following an August 8, 1949 four-page spread in Life magazine that asked, "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" At the peak of his fame, Pollock abruptly abandoned the drip style. Pollock's work after 1951 was darker in color, including a collection painted in black on unprimed canvases. This was followed by a return to color, and he reintroduced figurative elements. During this period Pollock had moved to a more commercial gallery and there was great demand from collectors for new paintings. In response to this pressure, along with personal frustration, his alcoholism deepened.

Death In 1955, Pollock painted Scent and Search which would be his last two paintings. Pollock did not paint at all in 1956. After struggling with alcoholism for his entire adult life, Pollock, on August 11, 1956, at 10:15 pm, died in a single-car crash in his Oldsmobile convertible while driving under the influence of alcohol. One of the passengers, Edith Metzger, was also killed in the accident, which occurred less than a mile from Pollock's home. The other passenger, Pollock's mistress Ruth Kligman, survived. After Pollock's demise at age 44, his widow, Lee Krasner, managed his estate and ensured that Pollock's reputation remained strong despite changing art-world trends. They are buried in Green River Cemetery in Springs with a large boulder marking his grave and a smaller one marking hers. Jackson Pollock His Life And Painting Tell your story Jackson Pollock Interested in Artists like Jackson Pollock, Paintings and Abstract Art?

Why not opt-in to our stimulating E-zine and receive info about your favorite subject....Or have a look at our cute, small, Gallery where you can find prints from Abstract Paintings by ME.. (New original paintings coming soon!) Like my site? Site Build It changed my life.... Pollock His Life And Painting Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, the youngest of five sons. His father was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government. He grew up in Arizona and California, studying at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School. During his early life, he experienced Indian culture while on surveying trips with his father. In 1929, 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 rural American subject matter shaped Jackson Pollock's work only fleetingly, but his rhythmic use of paint and his fierce independence were more lasting influences. The Pollock painting style is classified as Abstract Expressionist because of its unattachment to representual subject matter.

In October 1945, jackson Pollock married another important American painter, Lee Krasner, and in November they moved to what is now known as the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio in Springs on Long Island, New York. Peggy Guggenheim loaned them the down payment for the wood-frame house with a nearby barn that was made into a studio. It was there that he perfected the technique of working spontaneously with liquid paint. Before Jackson Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid paint in 1936, at an experimental workshop operated in New York City by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. He later used paint pouring as one of several techniques in canvases of the early 1940s, such as "Male and Female" and "Composition with Pouring I." After his move to Springs, Jackson Pollock began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and developed what was later called his "drip" technique. The drip technique required paint with a fluid viscosity so he turned to then new synthetic resin-based paints, called "gloss enamel", made for industrial purposes such as spray-painting cars.

During WWII, these gloss enamel paints were more available than typical artist’s oil paints, and they were cheaper. Pollock described this use of household and industrial paints, instead of artist’s paints, as "a natural growth out of a need". He used hardened brushes, sticks and even basting syringes as paint applicators. He would poke a hole in the bottom of a tin can of paint to get an extended drip line. This technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flying from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the conventional way of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension, literally, by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions. In the process of making paintings in this way he moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush, as well as moving away from use only of the hand and wrist; as he Jackson Pollock used his whole body to paint.

In 1956 Time magazine dubbed Pollock "Jack the Dripper" as a result of his unique painting style. Jackson Pollock observed Indian sandpainting demonstrations in the 1940s. Other influences on his dripping technique include the Mexican muralists and also Surrealist automatism. He denied "the accident"; he usually had an idea of how he wanted a particular piece to appear. It was about the movement of his body, over which he had control, mixed with the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the way paint was absorbed into the canvas. The mix of the uncontrollable and the controllable. Flinging, dripping, pouring, spattering, he would energetically move around the canvas, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see. Studies by Taylor, Micolich and Jonas have explored the nature of Jackson Pollock's technique and have determined that some of these works display the properties of mathematical fractals; and that the works become more fractal-like chronologically through his career.

They even go on to speculate that on some level, he may have been aware of the nature of chaotic motion, and was attempting to form what he perceived as a perfect representation of mathematical chaos - more than ten years before Chaos Theory itself was discovered. Pollock's Comments My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Question: Which artist was known as Jack the Dripper' because of his technique of dripping & pouring paint onto a canvas?
Answer: Jackson Pollock