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Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming. Also, the youngest of five sons.
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Pollock's father was abusing alcohol so he left the family. (estimated date)
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He would do this when he and his dad would go on survay trips. the dad worked as a survay person for the goverment.
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He is living in Echo Park, California. He went to Manual Arts High School. He got expelled from there for starting fights. He also got expelled from another high school in 1928. (estimated date)
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They moved to New York because they where studying under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League.
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Suddenly the father died and Pollock was very depressed.
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Pollock got drunk one night and started a fight with his brothers wife, Elizabeth. In the fight, Pollock threatened her with an axe, and then sliced through one of his brother's paintings, which had been scheduled for an exhibition.
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Started to use liqud paint at an experimental workshop in New York City by the muralist DavidSiqueiros. Then started poring paint onto a canvas in the early 1940s.
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Could not stop drinking. He began receiving psychiatric treatment for alcoholism.
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This helped Pollock make more art and drawings.
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Pollock discovered Pablo Picasso's show at the art museum. Picasso's experimentation pushed Pollock to push the boundaries of his own work.
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For this technique he used enamel paint, hard brushes, sticks. With the drip technique he put antother thing into play by being able to view and put paint to his canvases from all directions. Also, drip technique made him use his whole body to paint. (estemated date)
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(240 Kb); Oil on canvas, 73 1/4 x 49 in; Philadelphia Museum of Art
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(150 Kb); Gouache and ink on composition board, 18 3/4 x 23 7/8 in; Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki
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pollock got a contract with Peggy Guggenheim art gallary
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This is where artists were given $24.86 to do 20 hours of work a week.
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Pollok married a painter Lee Krasner.
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They both move to Springs area of East Hampton.
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the sudio was a barn at 830 Springs Fireplace Road (esamated date)
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(270 Kb); Oil on canvas, 59 x 84 in; The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Hans Namuth, a photographer, wanted to take pictures of pollock doing his work and his work.
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Time magazine named Pollock "Jack the Dripper," because his painting style.
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Pollock dies from a drunk driving car crash.
