- Born
- Died
- Birth namePaul Jackson Pollock
- Nickname
- Jack the Dripper
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, USA. He is known for American Gothic (2016), Works of Calder (1950) and The New York School (1972). He was married to Lee Krasner. He died on August 11, 1956 in Springs, New York, USA.
- SpouseLee Krasner(October 25, 1945 - August 11, 1956) (his death)
- American painter, who was an icon of the abstract expressionist movement.
- Is portrayed by Ed Harris in Pollock (2000).
- Best known for the paintings he created during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950.
- His "No. 5, 1948" became the world's most expensive painting, when it was auctioned to an undisclosed bidder for $140 million (November 2006).
- Of Clan Pollock.
- When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
- 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.
- I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
- Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
- I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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