Jackson Pollock
• Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
• Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912.
Jackson Pollock Grayed Rainbow 1953
• The Abstract Art Movement began in the early 1940s in New York City after the end of World War II.
• Pollock and the abstract artists became known as the New York School of Artists.
Jackson Pollock Ocean Greyness 1953
• Abstract Expressionist Art tries to illustrate what the artist feels.
• Abstract art is all about shapes and color.
• In abstract art there are no real life images, scenery, or objects.
Jackson Pollock• Sand paintings, as
created by Navajo Indians, were part of a healing ceremony.
• The artist served as a medicine man, who would use naturally colored grains of sand, and pour them by hand to create these elaborate paintings.
• Pollock observed a sand painting demonstration in the 1940s.
Jackson Pollock Untitled, 1950.
• Pollock was influenced by sand paintings but instead of using sand he would drip paint on his canvases.
• Pollock would stand over his paintings, dip his paintbrush or a stick into a pail of paint, and drip the paint on to the canvas.
Jackson Pollock
• In 1948 Time Magazine published an article about Pollock and gave him the nicknames “The Big Dripper” and “Jack the Dripper.”
• Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety but was a quiet and withdrawn artist who struggled with alcoholism.
Why couldn’t I get a cool
nickname like “El Guapo”?
Jackson Pollock
•Pollock's career was cut short on August 11, 1956, when he died in a single-car crash while driving under the influence of alcohol in his Oldsmobile convertible.
• One of the passengers was also killed in the accident, which occurred less than a mile from Pollock's home.
• Pollock was 44.
Jackson Pollock
• This painting sold for $140,000,000 (one hundred and forty million dollars) in the year 2006.
• Pollock's works are some of the most valuable in the world.
Number 5, 1948