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Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock, Pollock Biography & His Posters 1912-1956.
By Art International
Mar 6, 2006, 21:46

Jackson Pollock,
Pollock Biography & His Posters 1912-1956.


 

Jackson Pollock, Pollock Biography & His Posters 1912-1956

Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming, USA and grew up in Arizona and California, later moving to New York in 1930, Jackson Pollock's early painting was inclined by the Mexican Muralists Siqueiros, Orozco, and Rivera. After visiting exhibitions of Picasso and Surrealist Art, his own painting became more and more figurative .Jackson Pollock had for quite a few years been in psychotherapy to try to cope with depression and this gave him an interest in Carl Jung's theory of ancient archetypes that formed the basis of his work between 1938 and 1944. These paintings were often aggressive and were not well expected at first. Indeed Jackson Pollock violent method of dripping and smearing paint onto the canvas in dramatic, sweeping gestures is strikingly visible in his paintings. He would pour and fling the paint, using sticks and knives onto unstretched canvas which had been tacked to a hard wall or floor. This enabled him to walk around his painting. Jackson Pollock inventive technique became known as action Paintings Such radical rudiments as the neglect of easel painting and the lack of traditional viewpoint make this work an important landmark in post-war international art. Its connection with Abstract Expressionism lies in its energetic technique and liberty of expression. Jackson Pollock paintings are not as casual as they may seem; the artist has said, want to convey my feelings rather than illustrate them? I can control the flow of my paintings: there is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end. Jackson Pollock died in a car crash in 1956.

 

Jackson Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term Action Painting. In the process of production paintings in this way he moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the usual use of easel and brush, as he used his whole body to paint. Pollock came to be known as "Jack the Dripper" as a result of his painting style. The modify in style and technique probably came about as a outcome of many diverse influences. On the floor I am more at ease.

 

 

The mix of the uncontainable and the controllable. Flinging, dripping, pouring, spattering, he would energetically move around the canvas, just about as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see. Jackson Pollock wanted to feel part of the painting? I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. I have a partiality for sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a grave impasto with sand, broken glass or other

foreign matter? It was about the faction of his body, over which he had control, mixed with the viscous flow of paint.

 

 

Jackson Pollock violent method of dripping and smearing paint onto the canvas in dramatic, sweeping gestures is strikingly perceptible in his paintings. He would pour and fling the paint, using sticks and knives onto unstretched canvas which had been tacked to a hard wall or floor. As he painted, this enabled him to walk around it as well. Jackson Pollock innovative technique became known as action Painting? Such radical basics as the abandonment of easel painting and the
lack of traditional point of view make this work a central landmark in post-war international art.

 

Let's see some of his paintings!

 

Male And Female

1942 (240 Kb); Oil on canvas, 73 1/4 x 49 in; Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Moon-Woman

1942 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 69 x 43 in; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

 

Stenographic Figure

1942 (180 Kb); Oil on canvas, 40 x 56 in; The Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

Blue (Moby Dick)

c. 1943 (150 Kb); Gouache and ink on composition board, 18 3/4 x 23 7/8 in; Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki

 

Eyes in the Heat

1946 (320 Kb); Oil on canvas, 54 x 43 in; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

 

 

 



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