Jackson Pollock and Art

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Art is defined as the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Jackson Pollock does an amazing job creating art. Pollock’s works are not as big as some of the other artists like Monet’s paintings but his works are still large enough to engulf the viewer. Biography (All this information about the background of Jackson Pollock was taken from (Jackson Pollock, 2014) off of Biography.com Jackson Pollock bipgraphy synopsis) Pollock was born on January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming. He died after driving drunk and crashing into a tree in New York in 1956, at age 44. His father, LeRoy Pollock, was a farmer and a government land surveyor, and his mother, Stella May McClure, was a fierce woman with artistic ambitions. The youngest of five brothers, he was a needy child and was often in search of attention that he did not receive. Pollock's family moved around the West, to Arizona and throughout California. When Pollock was 8, his father, who was an abusive alcoholic, left the family, and Pollock's older brother, Charles, became like a father to him. Charles was an artist, and was considered to be the best in the family. He had a significant influence on his younger brother's future ambitions. While the family was living in Los Angeles, Pollock enrolled in the Manual Arts High School, where he learned to draw but had little success expressing himself. He was eventually expelled for starting fights. In 1930, at age 18, Pollock moved to New York City to live with his brother, Charles. He soon began studying with Charles's art teacher, representational regionalist painter Thomas Hart... ... middle of paper ... ... expression of the self. Pouring and flinging paint onto canvas, usually on the floor, he created large “all-over”—completely covered, large-scale—surfaces with no place for the eye to rest. References: Jackson Pollock. (2014). Retrieved Mar 30, 2014, from The Biography Channel Website: file:///C:/Chandise/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/VB6OGT7M.htm Jackson Pollock-biography, paintings, quotes of Jackson Pollock. (2013). Retrieved Mar 30, 2014, from Jackson Pollock: file:///C:/Users/Chandise/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/6DFCBWML.htm Pioch, N. (2002, Jul 16). WebMuseum: Pollock, Jackson. Retrieved 3 30, 2014, from Pollock, Jackson: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/ Sayre, H. M. (2010). A World of Art: Sixth Edition. In H. M. Sayre, A World of Art: Sixth Edition (pp. 511, 134, 29, 135, 152, 313-314, 132). Lake St., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.,.

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