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A 6 page paper which examine the myth and
reality of Jackson Pollock. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the New York action painters and a major contributor to Abstract Expressionism."1 His work was perhaps the most abstract that one could imagine, as he used a dripping technique that
provided him with the name "Jack the Dripper." His works are incredibly vivid, symbolic it would seem, and highly up to interpretation. They are pieces of art that encourage discussion,
as well as thought. And, like most artists, a sort of myth followed him around, a myth that was perhaps nothing like the man that truly was. In the following
paper we examine the life and work of Jackson Pollock, examining how his myth and reality were different. Pollock: The Man and the Myth As mentioned, Pollock was
born in Wyoming in 1912. The next year the family moved to Arizona. In 1917 they moved to Chico, California. In 1919 the family then moved to Janesville, California where
the Jacksons mother and father had purchased a motel. In 1920 Jacksons father left the family, though remained in contact. And, in 1921 his mother got out from under the
motel and moved to a farm, along with the children, near Orland. Jacksons brother, Charles, was somewhat involved in the field of art and while away would send the family
a periodical that contained art and artistic literature. This is perhaps what truly inspired Jackson to enter into the world of art for a career. "He began to study
painting in 1929 at the Art Students League, New York, under the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton. During the 1930s he worked in the manner of the Regionalists, being influenced
also by the Mexican muralist painters (Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros) and by certain aspects of Surrealism."2 From the late 1930s to the early 1940s Jackson "worked for the Federal Art Project"
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