Jackson Pollock was an American painter, and the main leader behind the theoretical expressionist development in the art world. During his lifetime, Pollock experienced a great noteworthy distinction and notoriety. Jackson Pollock's noteworthy distinction comes from him, creating a standout amongst the most radical conceptual styles ever, isolating line from shading, rethinking the classifications of drawing and painting, and finding new intends to portray pictorial space. Pollock’s notoriety started when he became depressed. Discouraged and frequented, Pollock would meet his companions at the adjacent Cedar Bar, drinking until it closed and would get into vicious fights. Worried for Pollock's well-being, Lee Krasner (his wife) approached Pollock's mom help. Her nearness
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Mid-1930s, he worked in the Regionalist style, and was impacted by Mexican muralist painter, Digo Rivera. An exhibition entitled Picasso: 40 Years of His Art, drove Pollock to perceive the expressive force of European innovation, which he had beforehand dismissed for American craftsmanship. He started to develop another style of semi-dynamic totemic creations, refined through over the top improving. Most of his canvases were either set on the floor, or laid out against a wall, rather than being fixed to an easel. Another impact on Pollock was the work of the Ukrainian American craftsman Janet Sobel (1894-1968) (conceived Jennie Lechovsky). Sobel's work is identified with the "drip paintings" of Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock made it possible for American painting to compete with European modernism by applying modernism's logic to new problem. He created a new scale, a new definition of surface and touch, a new syntax of the relationships among space, pigment, edge, and drawing, displacing hierarchies with an unprecedented and powerful and fabulously intricate self-generating
Mid-1930s, he worked in the Regionalist style, and was impacted by Mexican muralist painter, Digo Rivera. An exhibition entitled Picasso: 40 Years of His Art, drove Pollock to perceive the expressive force of European innovation, which he had beforehand dismissed for American craftsmanship. He started to develop another style of semi-dynamic totemic creations, refined through over the top improving. Most of his canvases were either set on the floor, or laid out against a wall, rather than being fixed to an easel. Another impact on Pollock was the work of the Ukrainian American craftsman Janet Sobel (1894-1968) (conceived Jennie Lechovsky). Sobel's work is identified with the "drip paintings" of Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock made it possible for American painting to compete with European modernism by applying modernism's logic to new problem. He created a new scale, a new definition of surface and touch, a new syntax of the relationships among space, pigment, edge, and drawing, displacing hierarchies with an unprecedented and powerful and fabulously intricate self-generating