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    Perhaps the most abstract of artists featured in this exhibition is Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). His style of drip or action painting is characterized as (Rothenberg) Abstraction Expressionism. Although famously known for his style of pouring paint onto the canvas set on the floor, his early works were quite surrealistic. Born to an artist mother and abusive alcoholic father who abandoned the family when he was only eight, he was the youngest of five children was a needy child always looking for unrequited attention. After being expelled twice form art school he moved to New York to live with his brother and studied with painter Thomas Hart Benton, his brother’s art teacher. (Biography.com “Jackson Pollock) Pollock suffered from Bipolar disorder and Alcoholism (Rothenberg) throughout his lifetime. As he became more well-known and famous, critics who labeled him as a fraud caused him to question his own work. He began to lack self-confidence to the point of relying on other’s judgements of his pieces. His response was to turn to drinking heavily and in 1937 he began psychiatric treatment. (Biography.com “Jackson Pollock) Pollock’s wife described his extreme mood swings and behavior in C.L.…

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    Art Appreciation 1301 September 23, 2015 Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock, or “Jack the Dripper”, born on January 28, 1912, would become one of the world’s most influential American painters. He started his art career when he was only eighteen years old. He studied with countless numbers of well-known artists in his lifetime. From the Public Works Project in which he developed his most famous paintings, to being a part of the abstract expressionism art movement, Jackson Pollock was truly a…

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    Stylist Analysis Jackson Pollock the world renowned drip painter is often one of the artists that almost everyone knows on the spot. Cathedral, 1947 is a painting held in the Dallas Museum of Art and was created using enamel and aluminum paint on canvas. Measuring at a 71 1/2 x 35 1/16 inches, this is no small painting. Cathedral, is comprised of organic shapes rather than geometric. The entirety of the work is the product of paint dripping off of a paintbrush. This controlled chaos is…

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    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…

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    Jackson Pollock

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    to reproduce, re-design, analyse or express an object actual or imagined.” (The American Action Painter p.22) This approach to painting will become apparent through an analysis of Jackson Pollock’s artistic practice with a focus on his work “Blue Poles.” Pollock approach to painting can be likened to a performative ritual, he lived in his canvases treating them as a stage in which he circulated around like a dancer (Mural and Alchemy by Jackson Pollock p.96). There’s clear evidence of how…

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    Jackson Pollock Flaws

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    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…

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    truly be a bittersweet dream come true. Jackson Pollock was born on January 28th, 1912 in the small town of Cody, Wyoming. His father Leroy did the best he could to raise Pollock. As a young boy he and his father enjoyed going on surveying trips together as well as learning all they could about the Native American culture. Eager to find himself during his high school tenure, Pollock was labeled a very troubled young man. He was expelled from two different high schools. In 1930, he decided that…

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    Authenticity Is In The Eye Of The Beholder A Jackson Pollock painting will cost a person a very good amount of fortune. In 2006, The New York Times reported that David Geffen sold Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5, 1948” painting to an anonymous buyer for a whopping $140 million. Jackson Pollock paintings cost that much and are valued so highly in the art world which is why they are very meticulous and cautious when authenticating newly discovered art works from the late artist. There are three factors…

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    Jackson Pollock was a psycho-alcoholic. According to the movie Pollock, Jackson Pollock’s work was first exhibited at a show with future wife, Artist Lee Krasner. In the beginning of his career, Pollock’s style of painting was close to the style of Picasso’s art, Cubism. Pollock seemed to have a love/hate feeling for Picasso. He seemed to admire him and maybe had been studying him for so long, like he was trying to crack some sort of code of Picasso’s paintings, but became frustrated that…

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    Jackson Pollock Tipping

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    Drip painting is a technique “where artist, instead of traditional style of abstract painting, drip or pour the paint directly into the canvas” (khanacademy.org). With the new style of painting, Pollock created a new form of art known as Abstract Expressionism. With the use of dripping technique, the art, although in two-dimensional form, the dried paint gives the viewer a three-dimension perception. The painting consists of a mash up of colors forming different patterns, however; the white line…

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