Lavender Mist

Jackson Pollock•Born in Cody, Wyoming (1912)

•Known for his huge paintings he made by splattering, throwing and dripping paint onto his canvases

•Used old hardened brushes and sticks and anything else that would splatter paint the way he liked. He even used kitchen items such as a turkey baster to paint.

Going West

•Jackson called his style Action Painting

•When he was 8 years old he moved to California. Many American Indians lived in the area.

•Because of this influence, Jackson put mythological Indian creatures and symbols into some of his paintings.

http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/artist1.shtm

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/Visitors can create a Jackson Pollock like

drawing by moving their cursor around the screen.

Eyes

In

The

Heat

•Jackson usually tacked his canvas to the barn floor. He liked to walk all around and be IN his painting while he worked •Jackson Pollock died in a car accident in 1956 when he was only 44 years old. •Even though he became famous during his life, he was often unhappy.

Naked Man With Knife

•Sometimes people have trouble understanding Jackson’s paintings. •They feel that anyone could have thrown paint around and done just as good a job.•Jackson knew exactly what he was doing.

•When you stand in front of a huge Jackson Pollock painting, you can get a feeling of being surrounded by light and color movement and energy, that is very exciting.

Blue Moby Dick

The She Wolf

Shimmering

Substance

The Moon-

Woman Cuts the

Circle

Blue Poles

Picture prints fromhttp://artchive.com/artchive/P/pollock.html#images