Essays on Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock, and Jackson Pollack, January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) is an influential American painter and abstract expressionist movement of the main forces. He is famous for his unique creation drip painting. In his life, he also enjoyed considerable fame and...

In order to determine whether a work is authentic or not, there should be a combination of a provenance, subjective authentication, and forensic authentication. In the specific case of Tori Hurton’s painting that is claimed to be an original Jackson Pollock, all three attributes are...

Jackson Pollock was an American artist during the 1930’s and 1940’s who created his own style of painting that gained him is notoriety and fame. The artist’s unhappy personal life, alcoholism, and untimely death in a car crash contributed to his legendary status (Pioch). Pollock’s...

WWII – the time of the omnipresent crisis- political and domestic. A crisis is a necessary period of the evolutionary process and the development of new ideas, both for the whole world and its spheres. In our case, it means art and culture. Art needed...

This paper will be comparing and contrasting Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five created in 1947 and Jasper Johns’ Flag created 1954-55 (dated 1954 on the reverse). Full Fathom Five is a prime example from the Abstract Expressionist period and Flag is a work that embodies...

The museum that I visited for this research study was the Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition that I chose to view for this study was ‘Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera,’ which was an ongoing exhibition that opened on 17th December 2018. The exhibition was on the...

Artists have shocked and confronted audiences in pursuit of the ‘avant-garde’ in art movements such as Realism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism. Realists, abandoning traditional themes and practices; Cubists and their subject matter, positioning, composition, and primitivism; and Abstract Expressionists, abandoning conventional tools and methods of...

From all the research and watching the movie “Pollock” I would have to say the movie gave a very good portrayal of the life of Jackson Pollock. Environment shaped the painter when looking at his life. His upbringing certainly had great influence on the artist...

Abstract expressionism was commended as an unusual, strongly customized and particularly apolitical form of aesthetic expression. This abstract expressionism developed into art during the post war period where the American government used this art in Cold War. When the U.S government agencies found that there...