Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth28 January 1912
CityCody, WY
CountryUnited States of America
death sleep thinking
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
thinking drawing today
I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.
thinking artist growth
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.
kids simple thinking
I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.
art thinking painting
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
flower mean thinking
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.
artist brush building choose creating earth game iron man mean plains shovel west whether
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.
american-artist life painting
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
expressing inner modern words
The modern artistis working and expressing an inner world in other words expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
american-artist expressing inner modern
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
aware contact destroying easy fears life lose otherwise painting period pure result sort
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.
broken continue fluid foreign further glass heavy knives matter painters prefer tools usual
I continue to get further away from the usual painters tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.
art ambition study
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
airplane mean past
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... 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.