Justin pollock artist biography

Paul Jackson Pollock (28 January, 1912, Cody, USA – 11 August 1956, Springs, USA) was an American painter, who become known for his abstract expressionist paintings in the early 1940s.

Pollock had difficult and peevish character and suffered from alcoholism.

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The pioneer of drip painting settled in New York in 1930, where he got acquainted with many cultural figures, including Peggy Guggenheim, who made him her protégé. In the mid-40s, Pollock and his wife moved to Long Island, where he devoted himself to modern art; the works made after the relocation brought him wealth and world recognition as a master of abstract art.

Creative features of the artist Jackson Pollock: In the late 1940s, Pollock began to work in a unique drip painting technique (also called “spattering”, when the artist splattered paint on canvas).

He placed a canvas on the floor and moved around it, pouring and spattering the paint with brushes and improvised objects.

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