JACKSON POLLOCK,ANATOMY OF AN ARTIST

 JACKSON POLLOCK,AMERICAN ARTIST,PAINTER and Action Painter,DRIPPER,ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST,and a symbol of AMERICAN PAINTING
b.28 JAN 1912,CODY,WYOMING
d,11 AUG 1956 in car accident,Springs,Long Island,New York
POLLOCK was influenced by PABLO PICASSO and MIRO,but more than these two,MASSON ,The French Surrealist Artist,was a great influence on him.This will not deny Pollock's originality,and or what is called ACTION PAINTING ,through his pure plastic performance,or in automaticity.That's what he phrased it as I'M NOT AWARE OF WHAT I'M DOING

ACTION PAINTING,a term coined by art critics

 POLLOCK's LAVENDER MIST,in NGA,WASHINGTON,D.C.

JACKSON Pollock's work: Mural on indian red ground,Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art,Tehran,Iran

Pollock in Action Painting,in his atelier of Spring,N.Y.,now as a museum

Ed Harris with Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly in the movie:POLLOCK(2000),

Directed by:Ed Harris