Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter and a great figure in the abstract movement that was emerging at the time. He began his studies at the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles in 1928 and in 1930 met with two of his five brothers in New York. He studied with the muralist painter Thomas Hart Benton in the Art Students League and in 1935 managed to get out of the precarious situation in which he had lived when he was hired by the Works Progress Administration as a mural painting assistant. In 1936 he participated in a workshop by David Alfaro Siqueiros, in which he was able to experiment with different techniques, such as airbrush or paint guns, and the use of lacquers and other synthetic and industrial paintings, which would later appear in his work.
Pollock was then introduced to liquid painting performing several experimenting methods. After that he started placing the canvases on the ground and that's when I developed what he calls the drip technique. After that his name began to rise everywhere. He was recognized as the possibly best painter in the United States. He then began to take dark colors and perform the Black Pourings. Over time he began to use color again and elementary figures.
Pollock's works for many were meaningless. For others his works meant a great change. Abstraction and its methods, until he thought of performing each art, were a dangerous combination in an artist. Even as a person he suffered from alcholism and even took therapies for it. however, I defeat him by causing him death.
However, Pollock and his abstraction were a boom for the art world. even with his situations what he managed to create was extremely impressive. The best thing is when you refer in the case that artists often look further and don't have because if you already have what you need, it's right inside them. It is true, what is needed for even change, an expression, is right in the hands of oneself. It has happened with every renowned artist and happens today equally when they realize what they have and what they can do with it.
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