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Jackson Pollock
Cody, Wyoming, United States
Archival Overview
American painter and leading force in Abstract Expressionism, world-famous for his radical 'drip painting' technique.
Biographical Record
Jackson Pollock was an American painter and the commanding figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement and New York School. Born in Wyoming and raised across the American West, he studied under Thomas Hart Benton before developing his own revolutionary non-representational style.
Between 1947 and 1950, working in a barn studio in Springs, Long Island alongside his wife, artist Lee Krasner, Pollock abandoned the easel. Laying unstretched canvas on the floor, he poured, dripped, and flung commercial enamel paint using sticks, trowels, and hardened brushes. Dubbed 'Jack the Dripper' by Time magazine, his kinetic 'action painting' revolutionized modern art by transforming the canvas into an arena of physical and psychological gesture.
Key Life Milestones
The Drip Technique Breakthrough
Began laying canvases on the barn floor, pouring and flinging paint to inaugurate modern Action Painting.
Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)
Created his transcendent masterwork of webbed enamel rhythms, capturing the zenith of Abstract Expressionism.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialSprings, Long Island, New York, United States