Jackson Pollock-Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming, but was raised in Arizona and California. In the late 1920’s Jackson helped his father with a surveying job on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. This tells a lot about whom Jackson Pollock was as an artist because he had a fear and fascination with vast open spaces, some people believe that this is when his fear and fascination began. During his childhood Jackson and his brothers spent time studying Indian mounds near Phoenix near where their mother worked as a housekeeper. This experience is probably why Pollock used Indian symb

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New York: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc. The exhibits I have seen of his work are breathtaking. Abstract expressionists explored the world on nonrepresentational art. In the 1940’s his emotional problems led him to themes that were mythic and heroic in very abstract styles. Moving away from the city had a freeing effect on his paintings. Pollock wasn’t a painter, he was an artist, he used different media’s.

Preble, Duanne , Sarah Preble, and Patrick Frank. , 1999

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In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s Pollock lived in Long Island quietly with his wife. In many of his famous paintings like Autumn Rhythm it is obvious that he poured and dripped paint to create his pieces.

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