Paul Jackson Pollock's Abstract Art

Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. He was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody, WY. He had a nac Modern and Abstract art. In 1942 Pollock met Lee Krasner while they were both exhibiting in the show at Mcmillen Gallery. Three years later, in 1945, they were married. Pollock observed American Indian sand painting demonstrations in the 1940's. Referring to his style of painting on the floor, Pollock stated, “I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. This is akin to the methods of the Indian
Many people thought that Krasner began to reproduce and reinterpret her husband's chaotic paint splatters in her own work. here are several accounts where Krasner intended to use her own intuition, as a way to move towards Pollock's "I am nature" technique as a way to reproduce nature in her art. Lee Krasner's largest challenge as an artist was to establish a separation between herself and her husband that was not strictly the otherness of a woman. Pollock's staining into raw canvas was adapted by the Color Field painters Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis. Frank Stella made "all-over composition" a hallmark of his works of the 1960's. The Happenings artist Allan Kaprow, sculptors Richard Serra and Eva Hesse, and many contemporary artists have retained Pollock’s emphasis on the process of creation; they were influenced by his approach to process, rather than the look of his