jackson pollock (1912-1956)

Paul Jackson Pollock, in his professional work was recognized as Jackson Pollock. He came to be an American painter and a popular figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He gained fame for his well-known style of drip action painting.

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Born: January 28, 1912, Cody, WY
Died: August 11, 1956, Springs, NY
On view: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago​​


Periods: Abstract expressionism, Action painting, Modern art.
 Influenced by: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Thomas Hart Benton, Mark Tobey

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<<<John Pollock Action Drip Paintings Style>>>

"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is." -Jackson Pollock-

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"The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you." -Jackson Pollock-

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"If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means." -Jackson Pollock-

"The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces." -Jackson Pollock-

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>>>Jackson Pollock Expressionism Style>>>

"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was." -Jackson Pollock-

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"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was." -Jackson Pollock-

>>>Jackson Pollock Abstract Expressionism Style>>>

"When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well." -Jackson Pollock-

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"There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end." -Jackson Pollock-​

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"Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space." -Jackson Pollock-

>>>Enjoy the rest of Jackson Pollocks Quotes>>>

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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
 
Art is coming face to face with yourself.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
   
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.
  
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
 
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
 
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
 
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.
  
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
 
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
 
Love is friendship set to music.

Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.