PROFILE:
Hi there! My name is Jackson Pollock I am an American artist. I was born in Wyoming, on January 28, 1912. I lived with my father Leroy and my mother Stella May McClure and my five brothers. When I was younger we moved from Wyoming to Arizona. My father was an alcoholic and left the family when I was around 8 years old. My big brother Charles was like a father to me. He was an artist as well. He inspired me to become an artist so I dropped out of school to do abstract art.
During the Depression in 1930 when I was 18, I moved to New York at the time when Franklin D. Roosevelt started a program called the Public Works of Art Project. This program was used to recruit people like myself and to help them become better artists. While in New York I studied at the Students’ League under a regionalism painter named Thomas Hart Benton. As I got older I met several other artists like Peggy Guggenheim and Pete Norman.
As I became a better artist I made my best work during the “Drip Period” between 1947-1950. Some of these artworks were Autumn Rhythm, Full Fathom Five, The Deep, Number 4 and lots more. As I made these masterpieces, Life Magazine stated that I may be the best living painter in the United States. As I became older I accumulated lots of wealth from these paintings. Some of these paintings sold over a million dollars and it became hard for me to work. I began to have family troubles with my wife Lee Krasner. By 1956 I was divorced and I had to retire. Later on, I was very drunk and was driving in a car with my girlfriend and her friend when I crashed into a tree and died almost instantaneously.
My Artwork:
Hi there! My name is Jackson Pollock I am an American artist. I was born in Wyoming, on January 28, 1912. I lived with my father Leroy and my mother Stella May McClure and my five brothers. When I was younger we moved from Wyoming to Arizona. My father was an alcoholic and left the family when I was around 8 years old. My big brother Charles was like a father to me. He was an artist as well. He inspired me to become an artist so I dropped out of school to do abstract art.
During the Depression in 1930 when I was 18, I moved to New York at the time when Franklin D. Roosevelt started a program called the Public Works of Art Project. This program was used to recruit people like myself and to help them become better artists. While in New York I studied at the Students’ League under a regionalism painter named Thomas Hart Benton. As I got older I met several other artists like Peggy Guggenheim and Pete Norman.
As I became a better artist I made my best work during the “Drip Period” between 1947-1950. Some of these artworks were Autumn Rhythm, Full Fathom Five, The Deep, Number 4 and lots more. As I made these masterpieces, Life Magazine stated that I may be the best living painter in the United States. As I became older I accumulated lots of wealth from these paintings. Some of these paintings sold over a million dollars and it became hard for me to work. I began to have family troubles with my wife Lee Krasner. By 1956 I was divorced and I had to retire. Later on, I was very drunk and was driving in a car with my girlfriend and her friend when I crashed into a tree and died almost instantaneously.
My Artwork:
People who influenced me are Diego Rivera, Thomas Hart Benton, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso.