Jackson Pollock

• Pioneer of Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock

• Influential American Painter

• Major figure in the abstract expressionist movement

Jackson Pollock

• Painted in a completely abstract manner

• Best known for the “drip and splash style”

Jackson Pollock

• Did not use the traditional easel

• Fixed his canvas to the floor or the wall

• Poured and dripped his paint from a can

Jackson Pollock

• Did not use brushes to apply the paint

• Manipulated the paint with `sticks, trowels or knives'

Jackson Pollock

• Added sand, broken glass or other foreign matter to pain

• Preferred to use common house paints

Jackson Pollock

• These drips and splatters became known as “action painting

• This all-over style of painting avoids any points of emphasis or identifiable parts within the whole canvas

Jackson Pollock

• The design of his painting had no relation to the shape or size of the canvas

• the canvas was sometimes docked or trimmed to suit the image.

Jackson Pollock

• Pollock wanted an end to the viewer's search for representational elements in his paintings

• he abandoned titles and started numbering the paintings instead

Jackson Pollock

• "...look passively and try to receive what the painting has to offer and not bring a subject matter or preconceived idea of what they are to be looking for.”

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

• subject to much abuse and sarcasm as the leader of a still little comprehended style

• In 1956 Time magazine called him `Jack the Dripper'.

Jackson Pollock

• By the 1960s, however, he was generally recognized as the most important figure in the most important movement of this century in American painting

Jackson Pollock

• His unhappy personal life (he was an alcoholic) and his premature death in a car crash contributed to his legendary status

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock