study under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students
League. He was soon a Benton family intimate,taking hard-drinking Benton as a role model,artistically and behaviorally.Soon he began suffering from alcoholism and started undergoing psychiatric treatment in the late 1930th. He had a nervous breakdown in 1938 and was hospitalized.
about making changes, destroying the image, etc. because the painting has a life of its own. When I lose contact with the painting, he result is a mess. Otherwise here is a pure harmony”. Jackson Pollock.
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In the process of making paintings in this
way, he moved away from representing figures. He also
moved away from the use of only the hand and wrist, since he used his whole body to paint. In 1956 “Time” magazine called Pollock “Jack the Dripper” as a result of his unique painting style.
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Pollock wanted to end the view’s search for
representational elements and started numbering his works instead of
titling them. “Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a picture for what it is – pure painting”.
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Pollock became known as a leading practitioner and
a celebrity of Abstract Expressionism. When he died in
a car crash at 44, he was one of the few American painters to be recognized during his lifetime and afterward as the peer of 20th century European masters of modern art.