Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
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
• 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.
Grayed Rainbow 1953
Jackson Pollock
• 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.
Ocean Greyness 1953
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
• 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.
Untitled, 1950.
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withdrawn artist who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
Jackson Pollock
Number One, Lavender Mist, 1950
Jackson Pollock
Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952
Jackson Pollock
Autumn Rhythm Number 30, 1950
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Click on the link below to see Pollock at work…
http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/process3qt.shtm