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January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956
Jackson Pollock was an influential American artist and a major force in
the abstract expressionism movement.
He was born in Cody, Wyoming, and later moved to New York in 1929, where
he studied under Thomas Hart Benton. Pollock moved away from figurative
art, and developed techniques of splashing and dripping his paint onto
canvas (action painting). Pollock was dubbed "Jack the Dripper"
due to his painting style.
From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project, in the 1950s Pollock was supported by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).
Pollock's career was cut short when he died in a car crash in 1956.
He was the subject of the documentaries Jackson Pollock (1987) and Jackson Pollock - Love & Death on Long Island (1999) as well as a movie drama called Pollock starring Ed Harris. The earlier ten-minute documentary Jackson Pollock (1951) was directed by Hans Namuth and had music by Morton Feldman.
Jackson married Lee Krasner in 1944.
So cool he's moved into ryhming slang
Archetypal live fast die middle-aged livestyle. Probbaly good for his myth that he did, as his paintings were going nowhere, incessantly repeated drips - Jack the dripper is as good a name as any. The necessary long-suffering wife, Pollock has been brought into fame by the American desire for home grown artists and art movements. he poured paint on canvas - there is something of brilliance in a few of his works, a rythym, a freedom, but on the whole it is not a comment on the cold war but a man who found an easy way to create.
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