biography
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Pollock, (Paul) Jackson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1912–56)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Cody, Wyoming, USA. He grew up in Wyoming and California, moved to New York City, and studied intermittently with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League (c.1929–32). His paintings of the 1930s, such as ‘Birth’ (1937), anticipate the turbulent impasto and sexual imagery of his later work. His first major exhibition was organized by Peggy Guggenheim (1943) when he was using mythological themes, as seen in ‘The She Wolf’ (1943). In c.1946 he settled in Easthampton, Long Island, and began his critically acclaimed abstract work exemplified by ‘Full Fathom Five’ (1947). The spatter-and-drip technique used on his large canvases (1945–55) established his reputation as a major abstract expressionistic painter. He explored figurative studies, but shortly before his death in an automobile accident he reclaimed his interest in action painting. |
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