Action painting (Jackson Pollock)

Paul Jackson Pollock (1912- 1956)
American abstract expressionist
(Jack the Dripper)

Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety.
He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist.
He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life.
(He died at the age of 44 in an alcohol related single- car crash)
Pollock painted with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and developed what was later called his "Drip" technique.
He used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators.
Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting.
By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension, literally, by being able to vieuw and apply paint to his canvases from all directions.

Quote by Jackson Pollock:
"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.
Most modern panters work from a different source.
They work from within"

link to biography http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist...

link to biography http://www.jackson-pollock.com/biography.html

link to zoomable http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=&bSuggest=1...

link to masterscan http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/l164.html

list of most expensive paintings
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/most-expensive-paintings-top-10.htm

link to playlist of Jackson Pollock http://www.youtube.com/user/meesterschilders#grid/user/889B3F58ECB49CC9

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[genia106]

Chris, I love the title

"Jack the Dripper!" :-)

[meesterschilders]

Jack the Dripper is actualy one of his nicknames... Pollock was not what you would call a social-type... his drinking habit lead to his death in a carcrash

[booriley781]

For all of you trolls who constantly waste your meaningless lives posting the same stupid things like "i can do that" or "that's not art that's shit" need to shut the hell up and get over your inability to understand art. The man's been dead for half a century, why do you care so much? You wouldn't know innovative art if it kicked you in your ass. All you know of art is that if it looks pretty then it must be good, your fucking ignorant.

[anibalmatiasnovoa]

what music is please????

[skinnyman1423]

@extremeeXrement1 we are all everything to a certain degree, but the fact of the matter still stands that you don't understand the point to his paintings because you haven't looked inside yourself for the meaning of his work, I want you to look at Picasso's Guernica painting and tell me what you think.

[extremeeXrement1]

@skinnyman1423 in that case hes nto really a artist thats like saying if i can microwavew one of those premade rotissere chickens that makes me a chef

[skinnyman1423]

I unlike most see an actual meaning behind much of pollocks work, that meaning being life is random much like every splatter on the canvas but when it's all said and done those splatters that seem random individually end up working together to make something interesting.

[skinnyman1423]

@extremeeXrement1 A lot of people who don't understand why his stuff is where it is say that it's absolute crap, but pollock didn't want his paintings to have meaning he wanted the people who saw them to give them their meaning. I think he succeeded in that and I think that he gave us a better understanding of the absolute randomness of life.

[extremeeXrement1]

@CinematicComics henry darger, ousider artist he was good enouth to have his own documentary

[extremeeXrement1]

this type of shit isnt worthy of going on my moms refrigerator let alone a museum

[dalemarieable]

You can look at Rembrandt if you don't like Pollock.

[samn100]

@mrJxin594 you really like arguing on pollack painting videos ._.