Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock is an American abstract artist born in Wyo's Cody in 1912. He is the youngest of five brothers. He was born on a farm, but because he grew up in California, he has never milked, so he is scared of horses. After dropping out of high school at the age of 17, he moved to his younger brother Charles and New York and studied with Thomas Heart Benton in the Art · Student League. When Pollock studied with him, Thomas Benton was already a wonderful artist.
Jackson Pollock was born in Wyo's Cody in 1912. His father, Leroy Pollock, was a farmer, later he became a government land surveyor. Jackson Pollock grew up in Arizona and Chico, California. In his early life Pollock experienced a Native American culture while traveling with his father. Jameson Pollock has not admitted to intentionally imitate or obey Native Americans arts but Jackson Pollock acknowledged that any similarity may be the result of his "early memories and enthusiasm" ing.
Like William Shakespeare in literature and Sigmund Freud in psychology, Jackson Pollock's influence on American art is very big. Jackson Pollock has allowed American paintings to compete with European modernism by applying modernism logic to new problems. He replaced the new dimension, new surface and touch definition, new space, paint grammar, edges and pictures, and replaced the hierarchy with a powerful and highly complex self-generated structure that has never been before. Throughout his life he has been actively involved in the serious dialogue of world art history, but from the Indian art of the Paleolithic era to the master of the Renaissance, the Michelangelo of Da Vinci, and the Muralist painter of Surrealist from Mexico Up to Salvador Dalí, Joan Miro and Max Ernst - The wish of Pollock is always brave, even the drivers of this continent.
In the 1960s Jackson Pollock was considered one of the most important figures in the art world and one of the avant-garde innovators that began to emerge. Just as with many other celebrities, problems in private life, such as Jackson Pollock's conflict with alcoholism, are enhancing its position as a "superstar." In addition, the premature death that occurred when he was murdered in a car accident also raised his legendary status that he still knows in the art world today.