Jackson Pollock Paintings

Jackson Pollock Biography

January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956
Abstract expressionist movement
Paul Jackson Pollock is known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter, was well known for his uniquely defined style of drip painting.
During his lifetime, Jackson painter enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life.

Pollock artist died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident. in 1998 and 1999, Jackson Pollock art was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. In 1973, Jackson Pollock Number Number 11, titled Blue Poles, was purchased by the Australian Whitlam Government for US $2 million.

In November 2006, no 5 Jackson Pollock became the world's most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of $140,000,000.

Pollock the artist wanted an end to the viewer's search for figurative elements in his paintings, and so he abandoned titles and started numbering the paintings of Jackson Pollock instead. Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a picture for what it is—pure painting.

Analysis of Painting Pollock

He feel nearer, more a part of the painting by Jackson Pollock, since this way he can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the art by Jackson Pollock. This is akin to the methods of the Indian sand painters of the West.

Artist Pollock used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators. His technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Jackson Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the convention of painting Jackson Pollock on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to Pollock paintings from all directions.

In the process of making art Jackson Pollock in this way, he moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush. Jackson painter also moved away from the use of only the hand and wrist, since he used his whole body to paint. In 1956, Time magazine dubbed Pollock "Jack the Dripper" as a result of unique style of Pollock painting.

Flinging, dripping, pouring, and spattering, he would move energetically around the Jackson Pollock Number 5, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see.

The most famous paintings by Pollock were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. At the peak of his fame, Pollock abruptly abandoned the drip style.

Art of Jackson Pollock after 1951 was darker in color, including a collection painted in black on unprimed paintings. This was followed by a return to color, and he reintroduced figurative elements. During this period Jackson Pollock had moved to a more commercial gallery and there was great demand from collectors for new paintings. In response to this pressure, along with personal frustration, his alcoholism deepened.