“The painting has a life of its own.”
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an influential painter and one of the main representatives of the abstract expressionism movement.
At the beginning of his artistic career, he was interested in sculpture. Plastic exercises allowed him to discover himself and corresponded to his desire to create, to distinguish himself with something tangible. In addition to art, Jackson Pollock became interested in Far Eastern and Indian philosophy, and later he was also interested in Jung and psychoanalysis.
After 1935, he was most inspired by Picasso, Miró and the European surrealists. Jackson Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid colors in 1936 at an experimental workshop in New York. Later, he used the color fusion technique in his artworks in addition to other techniques. In the Springs, where he and his wife Lee Krasner moved after their marriage, he began painting on canvases laid on the studio floor, developing a technique that was later called the drip technique. With this technique, he was able to achieve a more direct creation where the paint literally flew from the chosen art tool to the canvas. Pollock‘s most famous paintings come from this “dripping period” between 1947 and 1950.
He died at the age of 44 in a car accident.