Jackson Pollock

     Jackson Pollock was an extremely influential painter in the abstract world of art. He is well known for his unique painting style he called, “Drip Painting” more commonly known as “Splatter painting.” His paintings were simple, yet tedious. He used mostly primary colors to create his most famous works. Sadly, Pollock died in 1956 at the young age of 44 due to a single-car drunk driving accident. He suffered from alcoholism throughout most of his adult life.
      The work of Jackson Pollock was interesting because he never really came up with names for his works of art, he just titled them Number 1, Number 2, and so on. Even though many hold his works of art on a pedestal, I personally feel that there is not much to them. I do not see the beauty in layers upon layers of thousands of squiggly paint lines that his work is composed of. For example, Number 1 has absolutely nothing to it, no dimension, no center, nothing to be inspired by, it might as well be a blank sheet of canvas. However, one can argue that his paintings are inspiring because of the fact then there is no set meaning or subject, it gives all the power to the imagination of the viewer to create what they want in their minds because everyone sees works of art differently. Which was precisely one of Pollock’s strong points because he engaged his viewers in his artwork. Even though I am sure many people have had the same views as I do, there are others that do see his work as amazing and I can understand why even if I still think is artwork is dull and repetitive.

Number 1. Jackson Pollock

Number 5. Jackson Pollock.

Jackson Pollock, Drip Painting.