Jackson pollock interesting facts
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Who is Jackson Pollock?
This photograph shows Jackson Pollock at work...just look at the mess he is making on the floor!
He dripped paint onto large canvases on the floor. This way of painting was called action painting because Pollock would move very quickly across the painting, dribbling the paint in long, wobbly lines. Sometimes he threw the paint onto the canvas – and some of his paintings still have footprints on them from when he stepped in the paint.
Pollock was born in 1912 in Wyoming in America. When he was eighteen he moved to New York and trained as a mural painter. This meant he was used to working on a very large scale and so the idea of painting on a big canvas didn't scare him at all.
In 1943 a very rich art collector called Peggy Guggenheim asked him to make a mural for her. Pollock was so excited that he ripped down a wall in his house so that he could fit a huge 20 foot canvas inside. Peggy was very pleased with the painting and she invited him to have
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16 Interesting Facts about Jackson Pollock
1) His original first name was Paul.
2) Pollock once had a job cleaning statues for the Emergency Relief Bureau. He also briefly worked as a janitor with his brother, Sanford, at a children's school where their eldest brother, Charles, taught.
3) Jackson Pollock wasn't a very good pupil at school. He got expelled from two high schools and in 1930 he decided to live with his brother in New York.
4) He once knocked down a wall to make a room large enough for a 20-foot canvas.
5) In the summer of 1938, Pollock had a nervous breakdown, which left him in a psychiatric care unit for a few months.
6) In the late 1930s, Pollock filled several notebooks with sketches of Picasso's Guernica.
7) In 1941, Pollock was declared unfit for military service.
8) During the 1930s, Pollock occasionally stole food and gasoline because of his dire financial situation.
9) When Pollock's father, LeRoy, died on March 6, 1933, Pollock di
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Jackson Pollock Unauthorized
• Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock’s wife, changed her name. Her original name fryst vatten Lenore Krassner.
• Pollock’s real first name fryst vatten Paul. Right around the time that he moved to New York to study with Benton in 1930, he decided to drop his first name and use his mittpunkt name of Jackson.
• The only individ to survive Pollock’s deadly car accident was his lover, Ruth Kligman.
• One of his most famous works fryst vatten Blue Poles, painted in 1952. It was created with enamel and aluminum paint with glass on a canvas.
• The most important element in Pollock’s paintings is that of lines. When he first started using the method of pouring and dripping paint onto canvas, it resulted in huge areas covered with complex linear patterns that created image and form.
• “Jackson Pollock: fryst vatten he the greatest living painter in the United States?” That was the question on the front cover of Lif