Jackson Pollock: 'Jack The Dripper'

She was married to Jackson Pollock and their two art styles, organic, natural, and modern with a focus on the canvas being a flat dimension and the painting to be a landscape versus complex design from automatic drawings, were greatly influenced by each other. Krasner helped Pollock come into the modern and contemporary age of the 20th century and yet never gave up art herself despite what other had thought.

Cassatt created a revelation of family life in her paintings. As described in the article, “only a woman can pose a child, dress it, adjust pins without pricking themselves.. this is family life painted with distinction and love” (288). Through this statement, Pollock is describing Cassatt’s ability to recreate charming characterizations through her subject of self discovery. She had the ability to recreate reality into her paintings, avoiding sexual differentiation and creating a sense of equality. Cassatt’s unique

Men are supposed to act strong and emotionless, a historical expectation in American society. Post- World War II fear and alienation haunted American men (Perchuk 1995:35). Pollock’s method to alleviate fear through his paintings is the response to the historical happenings during World War II. The war mentality decreased masculinity as the men were able express “weak” emotions.

Not only that but the lines also pertain to emotion, which is connected to the content/analysis of the art work. “The painting recorded the energies and states of the man who drew it” (Haftmann). With that being said Pollock could have updated the definition of Impressionism in art. Creating pictures that seem to glitter with the effects of light, and yet which also suggest the pitch dark and anxious interior of the human

Jackson Pollock was an American painter and began to paint during the mid 20th Century. He started his own way of painting. These techniques were introduced by influences from the Modernist time where there was a vast social change that challenged traditional themes and techniques in artmaking. Abstract Expressionism developed in 1940’s. It was the first movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the Western Art World. As an abstract Expressionist, Pollock used different layers of diluted, running paint as well as different tools to make his painting look like it was dripping and crisis crossing in chaotic lines. In the art world Modernism affected the ideas, attitudes, and practices of artists. The

When Pollock broke the mold with his unique “drip” style, he was able to show the art world and critics what could come in the future for art and the new styles that were possible if one keeps an open mind. It was also noted that Pollock was influenced by Native American sand paintings. He observed demonstrations of these paintings in the 1940s. In this style, paintings were created by trickling lines of colored sand on to a horizontal surface. Pollock was also influenced by the surrealist style and the idea of ‘psychic automatism’, which was a direct expression of the unconscious; this is very noticeable in the work he began doing in 1947.

Jackson Pollock was not known for painting images, that's because he didn't use a brush He believed the brush would interfere with the dripping of the paint. Instead Jackson used a stick to pour paint onto the canvas. He would change the color, type of paint, and the thickness of the paint as the work progressed. Therefore, the painting would reflect the movements of his arm and body as he applied the paint. The activity of the painting would become part of the painting itself. That style of painting is called action painting. Jackson Pollock was the first "all-over" action painted just like Cernuschi stated on page 67 in his book Meaning and Significance, "He painted no image, just action." It looked like Pollock almost imitated a dance. Pollock dripped paint all over the canvas, but always had total control of where the splash of paint would be. That is how he got his nickname "Jack the

After some time Pollock became addicted to drinking. He tried to resolve his problems by working to keep him busy. But despite being busy with work, Pollock could not stop drinking. In 1942, Pollock met Lee Krasner, a Jewish contemporary artist and an established painter, at a party. “She later visited Pollock at his studio and was impressed with his art. They soon became

. In the section of her article called The Painter of Modern Life, Pollock uses an essay written by Charles Baudelaire during this time period, to explain how women were viewed in 19th century Paris (Pollock, 254). In this essay Baudelaire follows the travel of an artist through the streets of Paris. She uses this essay for two key reasons, first of all it shows how a man in Paris had access to different places of public life that women were not entitled to go and

However, that just might be what Pollock was trying to convey. Because one issue that he was interested in and certainly the abstract expressionists were interested in, is this idea that somehow the "internal self" was being expressed. That might be in fact, chaos and messy. He was a true master of paint that was being dripped, splattered, or that was being flung. He understood its viscosity.

Jackson Pollock was one of the most famous modernists of the 20th Century who helped create the Abstract Expressionism movement, which has influenced artists from the mid-twentieth century through today. Pollock helped redefine modern art in the United States while inventing a new kind of painting that changed the way the world viewed art. He is known for breaking the rules of traditional canvas expression, emphasizing that technique is not of importance, but the message of the piece is what is to be valued (“Jackson Pollock Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works.”). Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, the fifth and youngest son of an impoverished family. His father abandoned the family and Jackson was raised by a strict and stern single mother.

In 1937, Hitler was able to gather as much as 16,000 avant-garde artworks that were originally in display in the national museums of Germany. He also ordered to ship about 650 artworks to Munich in preparation for his art exhibition called the Degenerate Art or Degenerate Kunst. In the said art exhibition, Ernst had about 2 paintings that were on display. However, these 2 artworks were reported to have disappeared, with the possibility of have been destroyed. In New York, he joined Piet Mondrian and Marcel Duchamp, who were his fellow avant-garde artists from Europe. With these two artists, Ernst inspired a number of aspiring and professional American artists during that period. What captivated American artists about Ernst's works was his evident rejection of conventional styles and imageries in painting. These techniques were largely gained from his father's own styles, which he refused to follow in his later works. As young American artists were more interested in fresh and novel approaches to painting, this Ernst's unique style captured the attention of painters who became exposed to his artworks. In particular, Jackson Pollock was enthralled upon seeing the extraordinary works of Ernst. Hence, the young artist became one of Ernst's followers, among a few others. Specifically, it was Ernst's collage aspects in his paintings that fascinated those who viewed his masterpieces.

In Vincent’s own words he said, " What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter, and then the

Pollock began doing all of his works in a completely abstract manner in the mid 1940s. But, after 1947 is when Pollock's most recognizable abstract works would be produced. This is when he began placing large canvases on the floor and creating his famous abstract works. On these large canvases, he started to use his "drip" technique, which was first shown to him by Siqueiro. These drip paintings were first shown in 1948. They are said to reflect both ecstasy and anxiety. After they were introduced to the world, a critic actually characterized Pollock as "Jack the Dripper". These works captivated and scared his future wife, Lee Krasner, a painter herself.

Pollock is known as one of the most influential scholars of modern, avant garde, postmodern and contemporary art. “Griselda Pollock continually challenges the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so excluding of women’s artistic contributions and articulates the complex relations between femininity, modernity, psychoanalysis and representation.” (Boundless, 2015) She is known as a major influence in feminist theory, gender studies and feminist art history. Griselda Pollock’s approach to art history and criticism utilises the central tenets of Marxism critical approach to society and culture, extending the existing framework of historical materialism to compose new feminist analyses of sexuality and gender identity. Pollock embraces the Marxist assertion that society is structured by relations of material inequality, but contends that society is equally structured by sexual inequality and gender divisions. Pollock determines that the exclusion and denigration of female artists in art history is a product of the patriarchal structure of bourgeois ideology. Despite women being involved in art making, twentieth century art history continues to define the artist and the artwork as a masculine phenomenon. As art and culture is marketed and produced by a culture industry that exists to perpetuate and reinforce bourgeois culture, hegemonic art history and criticism actively works to justify this