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Jackson Pollock. By: Emily Corcoran. Jackson Pollock. Early Life Life After 1942 Influences Unique Technique Paintings Death Legacy Memories. Early Life. Born January 28, 1912 Cody, Wyoming Born with last name McCoy After parents death became Pollock after being adopted - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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JACKSON
POLL
OCK
BY: EMILY
CORCORAN
JACKSON POLLOCK Early Life Life After 1942Influences Unique Technique Paintings DeathLegacy Memories
EARLY LIFE• Born January 28, 1912• Cody, Wyoming • Born with last name McCoy • After parents death became Pollock after being adopted• Grew up in Arizona and Chico, California • Enrolled in Los Angeles’ Manual Arts High School• Expelled after being expelled from another High School in
1928• Moved to New York City to study under Thomas
Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York
• When moving to New York Jackson dropped his first name Paul
• Studied Under Benton for 2 ½ years • 1935 worked for the WPA Federal Art Project • Easel Painter • Next 2 years lived in poverty with brother and wife
until 1942
LIFE AFTER 1942• 1937 began treatment for alcoholism • 1938 suffered a nervous break down forcing him
to be institutionalized for months• 1939 – 1941 while in treatment psychoanalysts
used his work as treatment for other patients • 1943 given contract by Peggy Guggenheim at
Art of This Century gallery• First one man show• 1944 created first wall sized painting “Mural” • Pollock struggled to find a process by which he
could translate entire personality into painting • Totem Lesson 1 (1944)• The Blue Unconscious (1946)• Eyes in the Heat (1946)• 1945 married painter Lee Krasner• Helped him to stabilize this life
INFLUENCES• The work of the Ukrainian
American artist Janet Sobel• Mexican Muralists•Pablo Picasso & Joan Miró • Surrealist Automatism • Indian Sand Painting • European Modern Art• American painter Albert Pinkham
Ryder• Thomas Benton
UNIQUE TECHNIQUE • Perfected the technique of working with paint • Introduced the use of liquid paint in 1936 at experimental
workshop• Later used paint pouring as one of several techniques on
canvases• “Male and Female” & Composition with Pouring I” • Began to paint with his canvases laid out on the studio
floor • Later developed “Drip” technique • Using only synthetic resin-based paints called alkyd enamels • Pollock used hardened brushes, sticks and even basting
syringes as paint applicators• Used technique of pouring and dripping paint “Action
Painting”• Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating
art• Paint flowing from chosen tool onto the canvas • Added new dimensions; applying paint from all directions • Time magazine called him “Jackson the Dripper” • Move freely around a room as if he were dancing on the
painting • 1951 and 1952 painted almost exclusively in black enamel
on different sized canvas
PAINTINGS • Drip Period • Full Fathom Five (1947) • Summertime (1948)• Mural Sized (1950)• One• Autumn Rhythm• Lavender Mist• Un-sized Canvas • Number Twenty-three, 1951/“Frogman” (1951)• Echo (1951)• Number Seven, 1952 (1952)• 1952 returned to color
and Mural Scale paintings
• Convergence (1952) • Blue Poles (1952)
•Last series of major works in 1953
•Portrait and a Dream• Easter and the Totem•Ocean Greyness• The Deep
•Last years •White Light (1954)•Scent (1955)
DEATH• Died August 11, 1956 • Single-car crash while driving
under the influence of alcohol • Killing himself, passenger Edith Metzger and Ruth Kligman (mistress) • Age 44• Lee Krasner (Wife) managed
estate and ensured Pollock's reputation remained strong despite changing art-world trends
• Buried in Green River Cemetery in Springs, New York with a large boulder marking his grave
LEGACY “After Pollock’s death, artists
active in the American Art Movements immediately following Abstract Expression such-as “happenings,” Pop art, and Colour Field painting”
• Became a model of a painter who fused art and life
• Started European art movements and artists
• Considered an “iconic” master of mid- century Modernism
• Pollock-Krasner-Foundation established in 1985
• Assists individual working artists or merit with financial needs
“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.”