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'Jack The Dripper' himself. No selection of modern art prints would be complete without featuring Jackson Pollock paintings. One of the most influencial artists of the Twentieth Century and a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism. Further information on Jackson Pollock and his paintings can be found below in the Jackson Pollock Biography.

Jackson Pollock Biography and Information

Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, but raised in Arizona and California. In 1930 Pollock moved to New York to study under Thomas Hart Benton. From 1938 – 1942 he worked on the Federal Art Project, and by the mid 1940s was painting in a completely abstract style. The now famous use of dripping with the canvas flat on the floor began in 1947.

He used sticks and knives to manipulate the paint and often mixed sand or broken glass in with the paint to build an impasto and add texture to the paint. This style of painting was linked to the surrealist's 'automatic' approach, to tap into the unconscious mind. The resultant ‘all-over’ painting abandoned traditional notions of composition in favour of no fixed points of focus. Indeed Pollock’s canvases were often trimmed down afterwards to fit the image.

During the 1950s he continued to produce some semi-abstract works as well as his new drip paintings. His radical new style led to much criticism and sarcasm at the time, but by the 1960s he was generally regarded as a significant figure in the most important art movement of the century in America, Abstract Expressionism. He was an alcoholic, and his unhappy personal life and early death (in a car crash in 1956) no doubt fuelled his legendary status. He married the abstract expressionist painter, Lee Krasner in 1944.

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