Jackson Pollock Accomplishments

Many art coinsures and individuals involved in the art world would conceder Jackson Pollock to be the leader of the abstract expressionist movement in art culture. Indeed he was a leader in the abstract expressionist movement and his master artworks are testament to this. However, he is more than just some alcoholic painter who invented his own style of splattered drip art; Pollock’s personal life is as intricate and fascinating as the art he erected during his career as one of the greatest American artist of the 20th century.

Born Paul Jackson Pollock on January 28, 1912 in the town of Cody, Wyoming, he was the last of the five boys his mother Stella May birthed with her husband LeRoy Pollock, who was oddly younger than Stella was. By the

She was an American artist who specialized in the abstract expressionist style similar to Pollock. The two artists quickly moved in together to their house/studio with the help of a down payment loaned by Peggy Guggenheim. They bought a wood-frame house and barn in Springs New York area on the south shore of Long Island where Jackson quickly converted the barn into his personal studio where he perfected his art.(Solomon). In this studio Pollock began the true birth of his successful art carrier. Mastering his drip technique he began producing amazing and massive pieces such as Number 5 (1948). To give an example of how valuable his work has become in November 2006, Pollock's Number 5 (1948) became the most expensive painting ever purchased, when it was sold privately to David Martínez for the high price of $140 million.

After the magazine was manufactured, on the glorious invention of the printing press, and distribution of the copies were sent out, Pollock’s career as an artist escalated to an all time high. With the exposure Life magazine brought attention nation wide for art collectors and those involved in the art community at the time were at an all time high and began adding extreme pressure on Jackson as an artist to continue producing for his art. By 1951 Pollock had to transition to a more commercial gallery in order to handle the demand of art collectors interested in his works. As his work became more and more renowned viewers frantically searched for figurative elements in his abstract drip paintings so Pollock stopped naming his pieces with titles that involved words and started to title his art solely with numbers and letters, however, he did this sporadically without any form of order or pattern, numerically or alphabetically. He would skip numbers and go out of order when titling; for example he would go from Number 8, to Number 13A, to Number 19, then to Number 1