Pollock Jackson: paintings in the style of "floating equipment"

Talented painter of the 20th century, the founder of "drip painting" and at the same time an ordinary man with a difficult character. This is what Pollock Jackson entered in the history of world art. The paintings of this genius combine surrealism and abstraction, which leave no one indifferent.

Facts from the biography of the artist

Future celebrity Jackson Pollock was born in 1912 in a small town in Wyoming. His family often moved from one place of residence to another. When they settled in Arizona, at the age of eleven, an unpleasant incident occurred with the boy. While playing at the sawmill, a friend cut off a piece of his finger. Fortunately, this did not stop the guy in the future to devote his life to painting.

Having reached the age of eighteen, Pollock moved to New York. Here he studied artistry with passion and wrote his first works. Thanks to the wanderings of the Wild West, in which he spent all his childhood and youth, Pollock Jackson, his paintings had much in common with the painting of Mexican masters. But when the young artist became acquainted with the work of Picasso and the peculiarities of surrealism, his work began to show more symbolic direction.

The first steps of a genius

After the death of his father Pollock went through all the difficulties of lack of money, which could not but affect his enthusiasm for painting. In 1935, Jackson smiled luck - he fell under the program of support for artists, which began to practice in the United States. Now he was entitled to a monthly hundred-dollar scholarship for giving his paintings to the state.

Such earnings made it possible for a beginning artist to visit the Laboratory of modern pictorial techniques. This is where Pollock Jackson began his first experiments: paintings were painted with enamel, as well as car paints. Some sketches were carried out with the help of cans. Mastering the airbrush and spraying paint on the canvas came to the artist very much.

Influence of the teachings of Freud and Jung on creativity

Unfortunately, the young genius had a great passion not only for art, but also for alcohol. It is because of him in 1938 and falls into the psychiatric hospital Pollock Jackson. The paintings, painted by the artist some time later, became a kind of update of his creative base. This was facilitated by an enthusiastic study of the works of Freud and Jung while in the hospital.

New knowledge was splashed in Pollock's subsequent works, which marked the beginning of a genre such as abstract expressionism.

Features of the painter's technique

Near New York, the artist acquired a farmhouse, in which he places a place for his own workshop. Here, a lot of canvases are written, the author of which was already known at the time in America, Jackson Pollock.

Pictures, photos, which depicts the artist in the process of creation, help to present the whole cycle of creating world masterpieces. Instead of easels, Jackson uses three-meter canvases, instead of brushes - wire, sticks, broken glass and stuff. He writes pictures with great speed, trying as little as possible to reflect on the meaning of the work and to transfer the contents of his subconscious as quickly as possible to them.

Pollock's principle of technique, reminiscent of the shaman's dance, consisted in combining the movement of the master's body and the paints falling freely on the canvas. In the paintings, all the colored spots were distributed in the right order for the painter. Often in his works the artist used wide strokes, which he created with the help of energetic movements.

The most famous works of the avant-gardist

At the end of the twentieth century, America became very interested in painting in the style of abstract expressionism, authored by Pollock Jackson. Paintings "She-wolf" and "The stenographic figure" became one of the early and bright works of the artist, who collected the greatest number of positive reviews of strict critics.

A worthy place among Pollock's most popular canvases is the "Fresco", created by the order of the American patron and collector of painting Peggy Guggenheim. One of the assumptions of art historians was that the author originally wrote large letters on the canvas, and only then splashed out his fantasy around them. The amount of insurance for this picture in the early 2000s was more than one hundred million dollars, but its value is not known for certain today. But this is not the only expensive masterpiece that Jackson Pollock created. Pictures with the names "Night Pasture", "Pasiphaya", "Lavender Fog", "Cathedral", "Depth", "Blue Columns" also had considerable money.

Thus, the canvas "Look like a monkey" in 1973 was sold for two million dollars, and the work "Number 5,1948" in 2006 was taken from the auction for 140 million dollars. These amounts are a record for the works of modern art.

Today, Pollock's works can be seen in the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Underground and many other large museums.