jackson pollock

     

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter an a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. He was married to noted abstract painter Lee Krasner.

Trivia about jackson pollock

  • Artist who said, "On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting"
  • In 1950 he answered a Time magazine article on him, & a common criticism, with a telegram reading, "No chaos damn it"
  • This "dripper", who painted on the floor, was a student of Missouri muralist Thomas Hart Benton
  • In January 1999 a man scribbled with a gray marker on a painting in Rome by this American drip master
  • This drip artist was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912
  • A sample of the explosive work of this innovative American is seen here
  • This Wyoming-born abstract expressionist painted with his canvas on the floor
  • Abstract Expressionist:"Galaxy"(1947)
  • This abstract artist's method of applying paint, as in "Autumn Rhythm", earned him the nickname "Jack the Dripper"
  • Time magazine dubbed this abstact expressionist "Jack the Dripper"
  • This American artist moved to NYC in 1930 to study with Thomas Hart Benton
  • He poured & splattered paint onto the canvas to make his "Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950"
  • A 1956 car crash cut short the life of this American drip artist
  • 2000:Ed Harris as this painter
  • A 1948 action painting by this American artist is seen here
  • In 1949 Life magazine asked if this drip artist was "the greatest living painter in the United States"
  • Andy Warhol,Jackson Pollock,Judy Chicago
  • Abstract expressionist who painted the following
  • 1947's "Watery Paths" was in your poured painting style; simply brilliant
  • 2000:Ed Harris
  • "Lavender Mist"(1950)
  • Lee Krasner, whose work is seen here, married this man in 1945 & they influenced each other's art
  • In the late '40s a mother wrote to this artist that his picture "Number Nine" looked like some of her son's finger painting
  • This artist used trowels, sticks & even basters to create some of his drip paintings, like "Cathedral"