Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Abstract Expressionism
Date and Place of Birth:
January 28, 1912, Cody, Wyoming
Life:
In his short life - during which the only constant factor was his fight against "authority" - Jackson Pollock created a technique called "drip painting", which liberated him from mixing colors or requiring brushes. He'd lay his (enormous) canvases, unstretched, right on the floor of his workshop. This gave him the ability to move all around his work, dripping, pouring and throwing paint as fit into his composition. His work inpsired the term "action painting".
Important Works:
- Full Fathom Five, 1947
- Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1950
- Blue Poles, 1953
Date and Place of Death:
August 11, 1956, East Hampton, New York
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