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Jim Dine Hearts

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He was born June 16, 1935.He is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator, performance artist. He is an American pop artist.

JACKSON POLLOCK(1912-1956)

An overview of Jackson Pollock’s style

• Considered one of the most Influential American Painters of all time

• Abstract painting

• Expressionism represents emotions, feelings & ideas.

Pollock’s Artistic Challenges & Struggles...

• Despite Pollock’s love of creating art, he was not particularly strong at drawing or painting.

• He was often frustrated and exhibited rebellious behavior.

• Pollock often produced unfinished work where his sadness was easily detected

self portrait 1930 by Jackson Pollock

The Great Depression leads to amazing

opportunity for American Artists

• During The Great Depression, there were very few jobs available in America. The US Government established the Federal Art Project to employ out-of-work artists.

• From 1938-1942, Pollock participated in this program, creating art work to appear in public places such as school, hospitals, banks & libraries, in exchange for a salary.

Pollock finds his style• By 1940, Pollock was painting completely abstract - the term “drip &

splash” was coined because of his art.

• Instead of using a traditional easel, he would affix the canvas to the floor

• Paint would drip, or be poured by use of sticks, knives, sand, broken glass and anything else of interest to Pollock

“On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting since this way I can walk around it,

work the four sides and literally be in the painting.”-Jackson Pollock

Number 8, 1949Eyes and Heat 1946

Pollock at Work

Some of Pollock’s Action Paintings

Convergence, 1952

“The method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.... I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.” -Jackson Pollock

Pollock & Krasner Studio

The Pollock Krasner Studio is still open for tours in East Hampton, NY every summer.

Later Years of Jackson Pollock• Pollock began to number his work (in no particular order) instead of

naming each painting

• He didn’t create much art the last few years of his life because he believed he was no longer touching people

• Jackson Pollock died in 1956, he was 44 years old.

An example to show the size of canvas Pollock used

Number 4, 1950Shimmering Substance, 1946

Lavender Mist, 1950

Number 19, 1948

What the critics say...• Art Historians have said, “Pollock’s paintings are meant to make you think of a wild tribe

dance, or a piece of music.”

• Aug. 8, 1949, Life Magazine ran an article that inquired, "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?"

• Art critic Clement Greenberg said, “he took one look at the painting and realized that Jackson was the greatest painter this country has produced."

• Artist Alfonso Ossorio said, "Here I saw a man who had both broken all the traditions of the past and unified them, who had gone beyond cubism, beyond Picasso and surrealism, beyond everything that had happened in art....his work expressed both action and contemplation."

• Time Magazine mocked Pollock’s work by calling him “Jack the Dripper”

• Art Critic Robert Cotes said “mere unorganized explosions of random energy, and therefore meaningless.”

• During Pollock’s lifetime, he never made much money from his painting and never showed his work outside of America.

• However, after he died, Pollock’s art has been selling for millions all over the world.

• In 2006, one of Pollock’s painting’s “No. 5, 1948” sold for 140 million dollars, setting a new record for the most money ever paid for a painting.

• Museum of Modern Art in New York City has the largest collection of Jackson Pollock’s work on display today

No. 5, 1948

Jackson Pollock’s art today