How Did Pollack Create His Work In Art?

This part of the movie seems to capture Pollack’s focus on his painting and leaving the taste for hard liquor behind in New York City. Lee and Jackson decide to get married and focus on turning Pollack’s talent in art into something original and new. The film from here focuses on how Pollack creates his trademark technique of dripping or action painting, which leads to an article about him and his work in Life magazine. Lee and Pollack believe that this is only the beginning of the successes to come for Pollack. A man named Hans Namuth takes up an opportunity to film about Pollack and how he paints but this leads to Pollack feeling as though the movie is interrupting his nature of painting and causing Pollack to feel phony. At this point Pollack’s life takes a negative turn, he losses patience’s and takes up drinking again. The alcohol triggers his neurosis and from here Lee and Pollack’s marriage and business relationships fall apart and Pollack is openly having an affair with Ruth Kligman. Lee leaves …show more content…
We have learned that during this period in the art world, art had been getting more and more modern. Artists were pushing the limits to what it means to be an artist. During this time there weren’t many American painters that were making strides like Jackson Pollack. We learned that his unique technique of dripping paint onto a canvas lead to a movement in where bold colors and individuality were freely unleashed expressing the artist’s emotion. Also, It is debatable whether action painting is an accurate way to describe the technique that Pollock famously used. The Jackson Pollock paintings do illustrate a technique that was not bound by restrictions of space or convention. Certainly, Pollock’s abstract expressionist style of painting broke many conventions and was heavily influenced by cubism and