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21 Facts About Jackson Pollock
1. “Jackson” is Jackson Pollock’s middle name, his first was actually Paul.
2. Although Pollock was raised agnostic, while studying at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles he became interested in spirituality and theosophical literature. He regularly attended meetings of the theosophist Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian spiritual leader.
3. He initially studied beneath Synchromist and American Social Realist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in New York, who’s work strongly influenced Pollock’s early painting, and, on a personal level, the older artist was a source of early encouragement. Pollock even served as model for Benton’s momentous mural America Today (1930–31), which is now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
4. While living in near poverty, Pollock worked briefly as a custodian at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in New York City, which was the portent of the Solomon R Guggenheim Mu
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I got up close and squinted.
I could make out the figure of a man, pushing his tired horses through a mountain pass on a moonlit night under starry skies.
If anything, it looked like it could have been a Van Gogh.
Anyone but Jackson Pollock.
And then Murray piped up: “Wow! Even someone as unmistakable as Jackson Pollock didn’t start out Jackson Pollock!”
That thought struck me, so that night I dug deeper into Jackson Pollock’s life…
And what I learned has completely shifted the way we market our business.
Jackson Pollock painted “Going West” in 1934. It was a solid work of art that’s still exhibited today, but it could have been painted by any talented artist of his generation… There was nothing about it that screamed Jackson Pollock…
And then, lightning struck.
Barely two years later, Pollock was introduced to liquid paint at an experimental art workshop led by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros and he immediately started painting in completel
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Watch Portrait of an Artist: Jackson Pollock, the 1987 Documentary Narrated by Melvyn Bragg
Jackson Pollock painted with the kind of visceral immediacy that frees you from having to know much about his ideas, his methods, or his life. But spend enough time gazing at his canvases and you’ll surely start to get curious. If you’ve seen Melvyn Bragg talk to Francis Bacon in studio, gallery, café, and bar on the South Bank Show’s profile of the painter, you know how expertly he can open up an artist’s world. Two years after that International Emmy-winning program, the broadcaster, writer, and House of Lords Member applied his talents to a perhaps even less understood painter in Portrait of an Artist: Jackson Pollock. Where Bragg appeared as a participatory presence in The South Bank Show — to the extent, at one drink-sodden point, of getting tipsy himself — here he sticks to narration. His relegation t