Later he pursued his interest of art and began to study painting, drawing, and composition at the Art Students' League, New York in 1930. He was taught and influenced by a Regionalist painter named Thomas Hart Benton who had also been a teacher to Pollock's brother. Pollock worked in the Regionalist manner through the 1930's, but by the mid 1940's his style had become completely abstract and he began to use his drip style in 1947.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Artistic Training
Jackson Pollock, as earlier stated, began his artistic studies at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles where he was influenced by a painter and illustrator, Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky. Schwankovsky gave Pollock some basic training in drawing and painting, introduced him to European modern art, and encouraged his interest in theosophical literature.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Jackson Pollock's Style/ Manner
Jackson Pollock has been known for his very unique style and way of painting. His style is very abstract and he accomplished this technique by using rapid, impulsive brush movements. Pollock would place the canvas on the floor instead of using a traditional easel. He splashed the paint on the Canvas, and would use all sorts of utensils for applying the paint, such as sticks, towels, knives, and paint cans themselves. Pollock would poke a hole in the bottom of the can and let the paint run out onto the canvas through the hole.
Jackson Pollock became interested in the method of art done in primitive cultures and he was very fascinated in the Native American Navajo sand painters and their method of working. They would work on the ground with many different colors of sand that they would sprinkle around to make abstract designs.
Pollock had a very innovative, and he would approach art from every angle. Pollock would not just stand back and analyze his work, he would get in it and touch it and mess with it. In some of Pollocks works, foot prints would be visible from where he stepped on it. Pollock was all about showing feelings and emotions instead of making something look real.
Hannah Thees
http://www.jackson-pollock.com/uniquestyle.html
Jackson Pollock became interested in the method of art done in primitive cultures and he was very fascinated in the Native American Navajo sand painters and their method of working. They would work on the ground with many different colors of sand that they would sprinkle around to make abstract designs.
Pollock had a very innovative, and he would approach art from every angle. Pollock would not just stand back and analyze his work, he would get in it and touch it and mess with it. In some of Pollocks works, foot prints would be visible from where he stepped on it. Pollock was all about showing feelings and emotions instead of making something look real.
Hannah Thees
http://www.jackson-pollock.com/uniquestyle.html
General Overview of Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. A year after Jackson was born, his family moved to Arizona and moved about California. Jackson was the youngest of five children, and his parents were LeRoy McCoy Pollock and Stella McClure Pollock. Pollock attended Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, where he was encouraged to pursue his interest in art. Two brothers of Pollock were also studying art at this time and Pollock was asked to join one of them in New York to study with Thomas Hart Benton. After studying with his brother and Benton, Pollock went east and enrolled in Benton's class at the League.
While in Benton's class, Pollock analyzed Old Master paintings and learned all about drawing and composition. He studied many mural paintings and also posed for artists who were at the time painting murals. Pollock soon started doing some of his own work, which reflected the art of many famous artists, such as Picasso, Miro, and many other surrealist painters. He soon became interested in a style of painting, where he would fling and pour the liquid onto the canvas. Soon after that he started working for WPA Federal Art Program. He worked there for eight years and after that he moved to Springs, Long Island in New York. He lived there for the rest of his life with his wife and focused on his art. He went through many hard times in his life and was an alcoholic through a majority of his life. After many years of stuggle and many years of great works, Pollock tragically died in a car accident on the morning of August 12, 1956. Pollock had been drunk and killed a passenger and seriously injured another. Pollock has been known as a very influential abstract painter of his time, and will be remembered forever.
Hannah Thees
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/cas/pkhouse.nsf/pages/pollock
http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/artist4.shtm
While in Benton's class, Pollock analyzed Old Master paintings and learned all about drawing and composition. He studied many mural paintings and also posed for artists who were at the time painting murals. Pollock soon started doing some of his own work, which reflected the art of many famous artists, such as Picasso, Miro, and many other surrealist painters. He soon became interested in a style of painting, where he would fling and pour the liquid onto the canvas. Soon after that he started working for WPA Federal Art Program. He worked there for eight years and after that he moved to Springs, Long Island in New York. He lived there for the rest of his life with his wife and focused on his art. He went through many hard times in his life and was an alcoholic through a majority of his life. After many years of stuggle and many years of great works, Pollock tragically died in a car accident on the morning of August 12, 1956. Pollock had been drunk and killed a passenger and seriously injured another. Pollock has been known as a very influential abstract painter of his time, and will be remembered forever.
Hannah Thees
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/cas/pkhouse.nsf/pages/pollock
http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/artist4.shtm
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