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  Jackson Pollock - MSN Encarta
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), American abstract painter, who developed a technique for applying paint by pouring or dripping it onto canvases laid on the floor.
The surrealism movement was another significant influence upon Pollock, whose ideas about the relevance of the unconscious to artistic creativity coincided with his own experience.
Pollock reinforced this dynamism with compositions that emphasized all parts of the canvas equally and had no visual center of attention.
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  Jackson Pollock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement.
Pollock's early representational work was influenced by the Mexican Muralists Siqueiros, Orozco, and Diego Rivera, and even worked in Siqueiros's experimental workshop in 1936.
Pollock was profiled in Life Magazine as possibly 'the greatest living American artist' in 1949.
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 Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming to Scotch-Irish parents, he was dubbed "Jack the Dripper" by "Time" magazine in 1956 because of his original technique of creating a gestural painting that would free generations of American artists from many academic strictures.
Jackson Pollock is widely considered the most challenging and influential American artist of the 20th century.
Jackson Pollock was famous for placing the canvas on the floor of his studio.
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 Jackson Pollock - Blue Poles: Number 11 1952
Pollock believed that his abandonment of traditional painting tools (he preferred to use sticks, cooking basters or pour directly from the paint can) and the paintings he produced reflected the realms of unconscious experience but also responded to contemporary life.
While Jackson Pollock’s untimely death, and the almost mystical intrigue of his abstract paintings, have served to emphasise both the ‘romance’ and ‘heroism’ of the artist’s public persona, Pollock’s achievements as a painter cannot be overshadowed.
Jackson Pollock was born in the United States in Cody, Wyoming on 28 January 1912.
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 Jackson Pollock – Before Blue Poles
Pollock’s fame – fuelled by articles in the popular press such as Life magazine which in 1949 posed the question ‘Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?’ – was followed by a slide into alcoholism and depression, and a concomitant decline in output.
Pollock felt that his painting technique reflected not only the ‘inner world’ of the unconscious but also the cultural experience of the time he was living in.
As the exhibition Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles demonstrates, this departure was both a reprise of a recurrent motif in Pollock’s work and a self-conscious re-evaluation of the painting technique for which he was famous.
www.nga.gov.au /Pollock/index.cfm   (1767 words)

  
 Jackson Pollock
Pollock's first-hand experience of contemporary mural painting is thought to have sparked his ambition to paint large scale works of his own, although he would not realize that aim until 12 years later.
Pollock's radical breakthrough was accompanied by a period of sobriety lasting two years, during which he created some of his most beautiful masterpieces.
In 1951 Pollock's aesthetic underwent a shift in emphasis as he abandoned non-objective imagery in favor of abstracted references to human and animal forms.
naples.cc.sunysb.edu /CAS/pkhouse.nsf/pages/pollock   (1359 words)

  
 Jackson Pollock 1956   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jackson Pollock (1912-56) was the key figure in the postwar development of the Abstract Expressionist movement along with Willem de Kooning (1904-97), Franz Kline (1910-62) and Mark Rothko (1903-1970).
Jackson Pollock is an excellent hypertext essay from the WebMuseum that features description of his style, including possible sources of his inspiration; discussion of his role in twentieth-century American art; several paintings; and detailed commentary.
Jackson Pollock with She-Wolf (1943), One (1950), Autumn Rhythm (1950), Lavender Mist: Number 1 (1950), and Easter and the Totem (1953).
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 Jackson Pollock Summary
Pollock had for several years been in psychotherapy to try to cope with depression and this gave him an interest in Carl Jung's theory of primitive archetypes that formed the basis of his work between 1938 and 1944.
Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term Action Painting.
Pollock observed Indian sandpainting demonstrations at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1940's; he may have also seen Indian Sandpainters on his trips to the West, although that is debated.
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 The religion of Jackson Pollock, painter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jackson Pollock is one of the most celebrated painters in modern American history.
Pollock's image became larger than life, and his myth began to dominate his art because of the interaction of many factors, including the public's fascination with the millions paid for art that did not, like Rembrandt's or even Monet's work, look like art to them at all.
The focus on the drama and radicality of Pollock's technique was intensified by the exhibition and publication of the remarkable series of photographs that Hans Namuth made of Pollock beginning in the summer of 1950, and the showing of the film Namuth made with Paul Falkenberg in Autumn, 1950.
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 Jackson Pollock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Perched on the forefront of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Pollock served as the focus for the public eye.
He was known for "energy made visible, a kind of trance-like pictorial choreography in which the spectator is invited to join in the dance." Most of Pollock's works were completed during his "fertile" years, 1948 through 1950.
It could be said, however, that Jackson Pollock had served his purpose: the further liberation of the constraints of the art world.
www.stfrancis.edu /en/student/beatart/pollock.htm   (123 words)

  
 Artists Past & Present: Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, on January 28, 1912, the youngest of five sons in a working class family.
Pollock believed that the “action” of painting tapped into his subconscious mind, and his technique became part of an automatic process: called automatism.
Sadly, Pollock struggled with alcoholism throughout his life and was killed in a drunk driving accident on August 11, 1956, a crash that also injured his lover Ruth Kligman and killed her friend Edith Metzger.
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 Jackson Pollock -- and True and False Ambition: The Urgent Difference
Jackson Pollock's famous action paintings exemplify his true ambition—to like this world, and they are a thrilling sight of a man loving the way weight and lightness, thickness and airiness, impediment and release—are one in reality and showing them in tangible paint handled with a knowing technique.
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, one of five sons to Stella McClure and LeRoy McCoy Pollock.
Jackson's father was said to be a gentle, melancholy man, a farmer and later a land surveyor.
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 Jackson Pollock - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Pollock's final painting, considered by critics to be a dreadful rehashing of past ideas and past fame, is usually regarded as a jumping of the shark, with a '52 Olds.
Jackson Pollock was a famous chess aficionado, who despite his love of the game, never made it above amateur status.
Pollock, however, was a master of unorthdox chess strategies, such as the Bordeau opening stance (he would eat your pawns), the Flying Duck Surprise (he would throw a duck, sopping with paint, onto your lap, and then eat your pawns), and the French Castle (like the Bordeau opening, only he eats your rooks instead).
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 Ivars Peterson's MathTrek - Jackson Pollock's Fractals
The abstract painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is widely known for his spectacular, wall-sized paintings, which typically feature a combination of swirling drips, bright splotches, and bold, rhythmic streaks.
Pollock's signature technique, which he developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, was to drip house paint--in colors such as fl, white, silver, taupe, and teal--from hardened, worn-out brushes, sticks, and other applicators onto enormous sheets of canvas spread across the floor.
Pollock would begin by using a series of fluid strokes to draw a collection of loopy figures.
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 Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Artists - Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Paul Jackson Pollock was born January 18, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming.
Although he traveled widely throughout the United States during the 1930s, much of Pollock's time was spent in New York, where he settled permanently in 1935 and worked on the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1942.
In 1952 Pollock's first solo show in Paris opened at the Studio Paul Facchetti and his first retrospective was organized by Clement Greenberg at Bennington College in Vermont.
www.guggenheim-venice.it /english/06_artists/pollock.htm   (367 words)

  
 Pollock, Jackson : 1912 - 1957 - Abstract Expressionism, painting, drip painting, action painting, Absolutearts.com
Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming in 1912 and died on Long Island, New York in 1956.
Pollock's early abstract style is seen in "The She-Wolf" (1943) and "Eyes in the Heat" (1946).
In the mid 1950s, Pollock experienced a period of crisis and doubt, which lead to major depression, as a result of the success of his drip paintings.He changed his style to return to traditional brush painting.
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 Jackson Pollock - Biography and Links
Pollock's name is also associated with the introduction of the All-over style of painting which avoids any points of emphasis or identifiable parts within the whole canvas and therefore abandons the traditional idea of composition in terms of relations among parts.
During the 1950s Pollock continued to produce figurative or quasi-figurative fl and white works and delicately modulated paintings in rich impasto as well as the paintings in the new all-over style.
Pollock would fix his canvas to the floor and drip paint from a can using a variety of objects to manipulate the paint.
www.beatmuseum.org /pollock/jacksonpollock.html   (720 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Jackson Pollock -- January 11, 1999
Pollock's life was marked by both a burning ambition to be a great artist, and real doubt as to what he had achieved.
Pollock abandoned traditional painting techniques -- laying his canvases on the floor, for example, -- and even traditional paint - he often used common enamel house paint which he'd pour out or dribble through a small hole in the can, or fling with a stick.
JACKSON POLLOCK: And we have mechanical means of representing objects in nature, such as the camera and the photograph.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/pollock_1-11.html   (1734 words)

  
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Modern Art
In 1936 Pollock joined the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop, in New York, where he became aware of unorthodox mediums and techniques that he later adapted in his large drip paintings.
Pollock's poured paintings are as visually potent today as they were in the 1950s, when they first shocked the art world.
Although Pollock's imagery is nonrepresentational, "Autumn Rhythm" is evocative of nature, not only in its title but also in its coloring, horizontal orientation, and sense of ground and space.
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 Jackson Pollock St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Pollock's imagery began to contrast sharply with the realism of Benton; Pollock had more of an interest in the intangible expressions of emotions as subject matter.
Pollock claimed every drip and line was deliberate; he refuted the idea of chance or accident as part of his creative process.
Pollock and his action paintings were pivotal to the art movement abstract expressionism.
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 WebMuseum: Pollock, Jackson
This manner of Action painting had in common with Surrealist theories of automatism that it was supposed by artists and critics alike to result in a direct expression or revelation of the unconscious moods of the artist.
In 1944 Pollock married Lee Krasner (1911-84), who was an Abstract Expressionist painter of some distinction, although it was only after her husband's death that she received serious critical recognition.
It was not until 1947 that Pollock began his ``action'' paintings, influenced by Surrealist ideas of ``psychic automatism'' (direct expression of the unconscious).
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 Jackson Pollock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
With that method, Pollock introduced "allover," or nonrelational, composition, in which all areas of the picture are equally emphasized (in traditional Western compositions, parts are balanced against one another).
Pollock's process of painting was deliberately apparent in the final form: the image contains the record of its making.
Accordingly, Pollock was identified more than any other artist of his generation with the idea of artwork as an extension of the artist's being, since every movement of the artist's hand or arm is recorded in the finished picture.
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 Jackson Pollock 1956   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jackson Pollock (1912-56) was the key figure in the postwar development of the Abstract Expressionist movement along with Willem de Kooning (1904-97), Franz Kline (1910-62) and Mark Rothko (1903-1970).
Pollock's first real breakthrough work dates to 1943 with his first wall-size work, called "Mural." At this point in time, he was already experimenting with numerous techniques, different media and various surfaces.
Jackson Pollock is an excellent hypertext essay from the WebMuseum that features description of his style, including possible sources of his inspiration; discussion of his role in twentieth-century American art; several paintings; and detailed commentary.
novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/evans/his135/Events/pollock56.htm   (1108 words)

  
 Jackson Pollock Now
Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, and descended on New York like a she-wolf to devour its art.
Jackson pursued the sounds insect noises and distant car horns—which led him to the radi­cal wealth of jazz.
Pollock began to spill paint, in a muscular dance, on canvases in his barn.
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 Jackson Pollock
Pollock was an individual impatient with anything other than the most direct route to a goal.
Pollock was born strangled by the cord, an event that left him with mild learning and motor disabilities, and most probably, a precocious vulnerability to alcohol.
Jackson Pollock, by Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel.
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 Jackson Pollock Prints - Jackson Pollock Posters - Free Shipping
Born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, Jackson Pollock would grow to become one of the most unique and important American artists of the 20th century.
Pollock didn't stay long on the west coast, however, choosing instead to move to New York to pursue his career as an artist.
Jackson Pollock's early paintings were reminiscent of the work of Pablo Picasso and the Surrealists.
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 MoMA.org | The Collection | Jackson Pollock. One: Number 31, 1950. 1950
This is one of three wall–size paintings that Pollock realized in swift succession in the summer and autumn of 1950.
In 1947, Pollock began laying canvas on the floor and pouring, dribbling, and flicking enamel paint onto the surface, sometimes straight from the can, or with sticks and stiffened brushes.
This and the physicality of Pollock's method have led to comparisons of his process with choreography, as if the works were the traces of a dance.
www.moma.org /collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78386   (712 words)

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