He was natural inside Cody, Wyoming, and grew up within Arizona and California, later moving to New York in 1929, where he exposed under Thomas Hart Benton. Pollock's early representational operate was influenced per Mexican Muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera but after camping exhibitions of Pablo Picasso and Surrealist Art his work became additional emblematic. Pollock got for many years been around psychoanalytic therapy to try to cope with depression & this gave him an interest within Carl Jung's theory of primitive archetypes that formed a basis of his operate between 1938 & 1944. These works were typically violent & non swell received ab initio.

Pollock married Lee Krasner inside 1944 and inside 1945 it moved to Long Island in which he mass produced his studio in the barn. Krasner worked to trend lines a few and then that Pollock can concentrate in his painting. Pollock was a cappella to act in big areas of canvas spread on the floor, in the run he moved out of nonliteral art, & developed techniques of splashing & dripping his paint onto canvas (action painting). Pollock was dubbed "Jack the Dripper" due to his painting style. Despite a apparent randomness of his system Pollock extensively edited a canvases by trimming or even destroying a whole operate.

While the number 1 placed one paintings was exhibited at the Betty Friedman Gallery around 1948 it was a sensation & a sell retired. Pollock was entity to require in a big studio building & there produced the series of Sextet paintings of 1950 for which he is virtually all noted. Pollock was profiled in Time Magazine as 'the greatest dwelling Our contries creative person' around 1951 & when section of the profile Hans Namuth produced a celebrated series of pic of Pollock at operate.

From either 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project, in the 1950s Pollock was supported by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).

Pollock's operate when 1951 was darker inside colour, typically just black, & began to reintroduce nonliteral elements. Pollock experienced moved to the additional commercial gallery & there was dandy require from either collectors for newly paintings. Inside response to this pressure his alcoholism deepened. Pollock's career was cut short after he died withinside an alcohol-related, individual car crash in 1956 at the age of simply 44, killing one of his rider, Edith Metzger. A more rider, his girlfriend Ruth Kligman, survived. When his demise, Pollock's gallery sold all the works left inside his studio including several works that he experienced non meant to release.

His 1952 painting of Blue Poles was sold for $2 million, which was then the greatest price invite a contemporary art, whilst it was bought per National Gallery of Australia in 1973.

He was a subject of the infotainment Jackson Pollock (1987) and Jackson Pollock - Love & Death on Long Island (1999) as well as a movie drama called Pollock (2000) starring Ed Harris. An earliest tenner-microscopic documental Jackson Pollock (1951) was directed by Hans Namuth and had music by Morton Feldman.

List of major works
(1942) "Male and Female" Philadelphia Museum of Art [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.male-female.jpg] (1943) "Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle" [http://www.beatmuseum.org/pollock/images/moon.jpg] (1942) "Stenographic Figure" The Museum of Modern Art [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.stenographic.jpg] (1943) "The She-Wolf" The Museum of Modern Art [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.she-wolf.jpg] (1943) "Blue (Moby Dick)" Ohara Museum of Art [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.moby-dick.jpg] (1946) "Eyes in the Heat" Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.eyes-heat.jpg] (1946) "The Key" The Art Institute of Chicago [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.key.jpg] (1946) "The Tea Cup" Collection Frieder Burda [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.tea-cup.jpg] (1946) "Shimmering Substance", from either "The Sounds In The Grass" The Museum of Modern Art [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.shimmering.jpg] (1947) "Full Fathom Five" Neuberger Museum [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/fathom-five/pollock.fathom-five.jpg] (1947) "Cathedral" [http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/cars0037/cathedral.jpg] (1947) "Convergence" [http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/cars0037/convergence.jpg] (1948) "Painting" [http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/cars0037/painting.jpg] (1948) "Number 8" [http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/cars0037/number-8.jpg] (1948) "Summertime: Number 9A" Tate Modern [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=12149&searchid=7605&tabview=image] (1950) "Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950" National Gallery of Art [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/lavender-mist/pollock.lavender-mist.jpg] (1950) "Autumn Rhythm: No.30, 1950" [http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/cars0037/autumn.jpg] (1950) "One: No. 31, 1950" [http://eliot.gq.nu/oneno31_1950.jpg] (1951) "Number 7" [http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/cars0037/nu71951.jpg] (1952) "Blue Poles: No. 11, 1952" [http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/cars0037/bluepoles.jpg] (1953) "Easter and the Totem" The Museum of Modern Art [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.easter-totem.jpg] (1953) "Ocean Greyness" [http://academic.algonquincollege.com/students/cars0037/ocean.jpg]