He subsequently grew up in Arizona and Chico, California. In November 1912, Stella took her sons to San Diego Jackson was just 10 months old and would never return to Cody. Stella, proud of her family's heritage as weavers, made and sold dresses as a teenager. LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government, moving for different jobs. Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian they were of Irish and Scots-Irish descent, respectively. His father had been born with the surname McCoy, but took the surname of his adoptive parents, neighbors who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other. Pollock's mother is interred at Tingley Cemetery, Ringgold County, Iowa. His parents, Stella May (née McClure) and LeRoy Pollock, were born and grew up in Tingley, Iowa, and were educated at Tingley High School. Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, the youngest of five brothers. In 19, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. A larger, more comprehensive exhibition of his work was held there in 1967. In December 1956, four months after his death, Pollock was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related single-car collision when he was driving.
In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. In 2016, Pollock's painting titled Number 17A was reported to have fetched US$200 million in a private purchase.Ī reclusive and volatile personality, Pollock struggled with alcoholism for most of his life.
This extreme form of abstraction divided the critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects. It was called all-over painting and action painting, since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. He was widely noticed for his " drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. Paul Jackson Pollock ( / ˈ p ɒ l ə k/ January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
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