
After his move to Springs, New York, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor and he developed what was later called his " drip" technique.įrom 1938 to 1942 Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project. He later used paint pouring as one of several techniques on canvases of the early 1940s, such as Male and Female and Composition with Pouring I. Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid paint in 1936 at an experimental workshop in New York City by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. In the early 1930s, Pollock spent a summer touring the Western United States together with Glen Rounds, a fellow art student, and Benton, their teacher. Benton's rural American subject matter had little influence on Pollock's work, but his rhythmic use of paint and his fierce independence were more lasting. In 1930, following his older brother Charles Pollock, he moved to New York City, where they both studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. He was also heavily influenced by Mexican muralists, particularly José Clemente Orozco, whose fresco Prometheus he would later call "the greatest painting in North America".

During his early life, Pollock explored Native American culture while on surveying trips with his father. He had already been expelled in 1928 from another high school.
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While living in the Vermont Square neighborhood of Los Angeles, he enrolled at Manual Arts High School, from which he was expelled. He subsequently grew up in Arizona and Chico, California. In November 1912, Stella took her sons to San Diego Jackson was just 10 months old and would never return to Cody. Stella, proud of her family's heritage as weavers, made and sold dresses as a teenager. LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government, moving for different jobs. Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian they were of Irish and Scots-Irish descent, respectively.

His father had been born with the surname McCoy, but took the surname of his adoptive parents, neighbors who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other. Pollock's mother is interred at Tingley Cemetery, Ringgold County, Iowa. His parents, Stella May (née McClure) and LeRoy Pollock, were born and grew up in Tingley, Iowa, and were educated at Tingley High School.

Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, the youngest of five brothers. In 19, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. A larger, more comprehensive exhibition of his work was held there in 1967. In December 1956, four months after his death, Pollock was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related single-car accident when he was driving. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. In 2016, Pollock's painting titled Number 17A was reported to have fetched US$200 million in a private purchase.Ī reclusive and volatile personality, Pollock struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. This extreme form of abstraction divided the critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects. It was also called all-over painting and action painting, since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. He was widely noticed for his " drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. Paul Jackson Pollock ( / ˈ p ɒ l ə k/ January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
