Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollack was of the one of the foremost artistic innovators of the 20th century. This paper explains how his style and creative techniques inspired a generation of artists and had a lasting and profound affect on contemporary art. It discusses how his later work is credited with initiating the Abstract Expressionist School of modern art. His style and method of painting was a radical departure from the type of painting that merely represented or "copied" the world and objects that the artist encountered. The writer points out that Pollock developed a technique and approach to painting and produced works of art that were a more subtle and complex expression and response to the world around him and his own psyche.

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"Jackson Pollack was born in 1912. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City and was influenced and by the work and of Charles Benton. His early works were similar in many ways to the naturalistic style of Benton. At this early stage of his career he was essentially a representational artist. In other words, his art contained objects and elements that were familiar and recognizable and part of the ordinary world. However, the early half of the Twentieth Century was a time of radical thought and experimentation in modern art and Pollack was influenced by modern experimentation and new trends in art, such as Surrealism and other European art. He began to adopt a more abstract and "expressive" style of painting, as can be seen in works such as The She-Wolf, painted in 1943. (Jackson Pollack .1912-1956) Other works such as Pasiphae and Totem 1, painted in 1944, also show the influence of the Surrealists."

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