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.

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

In this review, I will analyse The Legacy of Jackson Pollock (1959), written by Allan Kaprow and review how he discusses the work of Jackson Pollock, relating this to my own experimentation within my practice, and later considering the social advancements in art and how it effects Pollock’s work.

If people were asked to make a mental picture of a painter working on his work of art, most of them would describe it as a person with a big canvas on a stand in front of them painting the subject which they are looking at. There were two major differences in Pollock's approach to his art compared to other artists. The first major difference was that Jackson painted on the floor. The second difference was that he used a stick instead of a brush. They would say that because they are all not exposed to different types and styles of painting. For those people who do not know much about art wouldn't know the meaning of the painting or how it was created. In some instances people say to themselves, "you call this art, my little brother could

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.

Although Pollock changed the art world in a concrete way, the extent of the impact Pollock had on the art world may not be explicitly clear. In an interview with Bruce Glaser of Arts Magazine, Lee Krasner, one of Pollock’s wives and a fellow abstract expressionist, said that “[Pollock’s] painting shifted the focus of attention from French painting to what was happening here. … It breaks once and for all the concept that was still more or less present in Cubist derived painting, that one sits and observes nature that is out there” (Karmel, 1999). Pollock is a revolutionist; he changed the art world in an enormous way giving way to numerous art movements: color field painting,

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.

The dominant figure that steered the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the infamous painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock's artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles, California where he joined two of his brothers. From there, he went on to New York to attend the Art Students' League after being convinced by one of his brothers whom also attended the school.

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

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

As his career continued to grow he started being referred to as, “ The greatest English Master of colour theory in painting.” Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock is also recognized for his use of color and how it related to the canvas. In the Azalea Garden painting you can see a direct influence that Heron had from Pollock pieces. Pollock’s paintings such as Full Fathom Five and White Cathedral lends to the