Jackson Pollock Essay

Jackson Pollock was a psycho-alcoholic. According to the movie Pollock, Jackson Pollock’s work was first exhibited at a show with future wife, Artist Lee Krasner. In the beginning of his career, Pollock’s style of painting was close to the style of Picasso’s art, Cubism. Pollock seemed to have a love/hate feeling for Picasso. He seemed to admire him and maybe had been studying him for so long, like he was trying to crack some sort of code of Picasso’s paintings, but became frustrated that resulted in Pollock having ill feelings toward him. In the first scene of the movie, he was yelling obscenities about Picasso. Eventually, Pollock would “find himself” and create paintings that would place him in a group called Abstract Expressionists. Peggy Guggenheim gave Pollock his first break by showing his work in her museum, Art of the Century, then commissioning him to create a mural for her condominiums. The mural he created looked like it had …show more content…
This is when he discovered his “drip” technique. In the movie, Krasner said he “cracked it wide open.” He began selling more of his art, however, he and Krasner were still struggling. I believe he had some sort of mental issues along with addition to alcohol. In one scene, Pollock was on the phone with his family and he was very jittery. Krasner gave him some pills which may have been to calm him down. In 1949, Life magazine did an article on Pollock, which helped his notoriety. After the article, Pollock had a solo art show at the Betty Parsons Gallery. Things seemed to be turning around from him. In the movie, Krasner advised that there was a review in the “Magazine of Art” of Pollock’s work that was much better than a review done on his work five years prior. She said, his work was previously called “baked macaroni”, but in the newer article, it was called, “an impregnable language of image – beautiful and subtle patterns of pure