Paul Jackson Pollock: Abstract Expressionist Per the art story foundation, Jackson Pollock was born Paul Jackson Pollock, and he was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five children, the son of a surveyor constantly moving from place to place all over California, he went to high school at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, CA. There is where he met Philip Guston who introduced Pollock to Theosophical ideas (Freedgood 111). Which prepare Pollock for his future dealing in Surrealism and psychoanalysis, Pollock had a rough child hood but he developed a love for nature, animals, and the expanse of the land when he was a child, Jackson Pollock was only 11 years old when he discovered Native American Art (Freedgood 113).
Pollock was an abstract expressionist American painter in the 1930’s he studied with Thomas Benton in New York at the Art students league (Artstory.org). Abstract expressionism was a post WWII art movement in America that developed in New York in the 1940’s (Wilkes 200). He lived with his older brothers in Greenwich Village where they were so poor that they barely had food to eat, and he worked as a custodian and he would steal to maintain per the art foundation. Throughout most of his adult life Pollock was an alcoholic and he would go in and out of sobriety his psychotherapist encouraged him to …show more content…
The painting, teeming with organic forms that merge and meld seemingly in defiance of nature, is a testament to Miró's ever-increasing stylization and abstraction at this point in his career. The picture may be viewed as both an homage to Spain's past and a statement on the political upheaval in Europe. In subtle ways, Miró's works frequently expressed his own political sentiments as does this one as well as works from the period leading up to and throughout World War II.” (Wilkes
Pollock was an abstract expressionist American painter in the 1930’s he studied with Thomas Benton in New York at the Art students league (Artstory.org). Abstract expressionism was a post WWII art movement in America that developed in New York in the 1940’s (Wilkes 200). He lived with his older brothers in Greenwich Village where they were so poor that they barely had food to eat, and he worked as a custodian and he would steal to maintain per the art foundation. Throughout most of his adult life Pollock was an alcoholic and he would go in and out of sobriety his psychotherapist encouraged him to …show more content…
The painting, teeming with organic forms that merge and meld seemingly in defiance of nature, is a testament to Miró's ever-increasing stylization and abstraction at this point in his career. The picture may be viewed as both an homage to Spain's past and a statement on the political upheaval in Europe. In subtle ways, Miró's works frequently expressed his own political sentiments as does this one as well as works from the period leading up to and throughout World War II.” (Wilkes