Jackson Pollock

by Tiffany Byrd




Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming on January 28, 1912. Jackson Pollock began studying art in 1928 when he was sixteen years old. In 1945 Jackson Pollock married another American artist Lee Krasner. Jackson Pollock had a very unique style of painting. Instead of using paint brushes Jackson Pollock used things such as towels, sticks, knives, toothbrushes and other things. This style was called the “Abstract Expressionist” style. His paintings had no shape and many different colors and big pieces of canvas. Jackson Pollock’s art reflected greatly on Pablo Picasso’s style of art, but his artwork was not anything like the work of Pablo Picasso’s. Because of Jackson Pollock’s style of art he became known as “Jack the Dripper”. Then in 1950 Jackson Pollock had a “mood swing” and so did his art. Because of this Jackson Pollock’s art changed to figurative black and white paintings. Jackson Pollock became an unhappy alcoholic. In 1955 Jackson Pollock quit painting and one year later he died in a car accident. “On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be literally “in” the painting.” ~Jackson Pollock.