Jackson Pollock Accomplishments

Paul Jackson Pallock, famously known as Jackson Pollock is the important figure who is considered as the master of modern art. He is the leading figure in expressing art with abstract expressionism. Born on the 28 January, 1956 is the fifth and youngest son of the Pollock family. Jackson only know his hometown, Cody, Wyoming though pictures as the family left there only when he was 11 months old. In 1928, he enrolled at Manual Art High School where he met with his first teacher, John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky. The man encourages Pollock interest in theosophical literature and introduced him to European modern art. Two years later, Pollock moved to New York city to stay with his brother, Charles who was studying art since 1922. Here, Pollock enrolled at

As such, with the aid of nature his wife, he finally created his personal method of painting called “drip” where he lieterally just drip the paint as he the brush around. Such is the cause of his fame as well as the value of his work to peak as the most expensive at auction. None the less, this fame is actually poison to the artist. People he knew started to compete, and some media called him a fraud. Such, he cracked under pressure and went back drinking. This resulted in his wife to call his mother to aid. This helped stabilized Pollock as well as when he created his masterpiece, The Deep. However, once the demad for Pollock’s painting grew, so did his pressure. He went back to being an alcoholic again. By 1956, Pollock quit his career as an artist as well as dating other women. Even so, his wife was still worried about his well being when she decded to move to France to give him time being alone. However, on August 11 of the same year, Pollock received a car accident, crashing his car into a tree and died. Though he’s gone, Pollock is still one of the most influential american artist of this