sfmoma: We want to wish a HUGE happy birthday to Jackson Pollock, who was born 100 years ago today. Jackson Pollock was one of the first American artists to achieve a worldwide reputation, and he became an icon of the abstract expressionist movement. He spent his childhood moving between farming communities in Arizona and Southern California. At 18, he moved to New York, where he studied art and painted for the Works Progress Administration. In 1939, Pollock entered psychoanalysis as treatment for his lifelong alcoholism, and his work of this period was heavily influenced by C.G. Jung’s theory of archetypal collective symbols. During the late 1940s, Pollock developed a groundbreaking abstract painting technique. He laid his large canvases on the floor and moved around them; rather than brushing on his paint, he poured it directly from the can or flung it in drips and spatters with a brush or stick. The resulting “all-over” paintings were an unmediated trace of his physical actions; they also did away with the artistic conventions of illusionistic depth and distinct figure and ground. Within a few years, however, and perhaps in rebellion against his tremendous critical success, Pollock began to re-introduce symbolic figures into his paintings. His life was perpetually marked by self-destructive behavior; he was killed in a car crash at the age of 44. Featured here: Pollock’s Guardians of the Secret (1943)
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sfmoma:

We want to wish a HUGE happy birthday to Jackson Pollock, who was born 100 years ago today.

Jackson Pollock was one of the first American artists to achieve a worldwide reputation, and he became an icon of the abstract expressionist movement. He spent his childhood moving between farming communities in Arizona and Southern California. At 18, he moved to New York, where he studied art and painted for the Works Progress Administration. In 1939, Pollock entered psychoanalysis as treatment for his lifelong alcoholism, and his work of this period was heavily influenced by C.G. Jung’s theory of archetypal collective symbols.

During the late 1940s, Pollock developed a groundbreaking abstract painting technique. He laid his large canvases on the floor and moved around them; rather than brushing on his paint, he poured it directly from the can or flung it in drips and spatters with a brush or stick. The resulting “all-over” paintings were an unmediated trace of his physical actions; they also did away with the artistic conventions of illusionistic depth and distinct figure and ground. Within a few years, however, and perhaps in rebellion against his tremendous critical success, Pollock began to re-introduce symbolic figures into his paintings. His life was perpetually marked by self-destructive behavior; he was killed in a car crash at the age of 44.

Featured here: Pollock’s Guardians of the Secret (1943)

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Watching the Who the Fuck is Jackson Pollock documentary and it’s fascinating.
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Watching the Who the Fuck is Jackson Pollock documentary and it’s fascinating.

paperimages: Jackson Pollock, Man, Bull, Bird, ca. 1938-41 Pollock died in a fatal car accident in 1956 at age 44. He had a history of drinking and driving and was well known by the East Hampton police. On August 11 Pollock crashed his Oldsmobile convertible while driving under the influence. One of the passengers was also killed in the accident, which occurred less than a mile from Pollock’s home. The other passenger, Pollock’s mistress Ruth Kligman, survived.  [i]
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Jackson Pollock, Man, Bull, Bird, ca. 1938-41

Pollock died in a fatal car accident in 1956 at age 44. He had a history of drinking and driving and was well known by the East Hampton police.

On August 11 Pollock crashed his Oldsmobile convertible while driving under the influence. One of the passengers was also killed in the accident, which occurred less than a mile from Pollock’s home. The other passenger, Pollock’s mistress Ruth Kligman, survived.  [i]

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A must-see. It’s incredible in person! 
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A must-see. It’s incredible in person! 

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