Jackson Pollock, is an American painter, born in 1912-1956 in Arizona, later in life he moved to New York in which he began studying at the Art Students League, from 1929-1931 with Thomas Benton. His paintings are known to be of ritual violence or sexuality.
Pollocks work has a lot of movement in it, he tends to express his feelings through the motion of his lines. He creates large scale paintings using oil on canvas.
he creates gestural paintings mainly inspired by surrealism.
Id describe Pollocks work to be very abstract, the composition of it seems to look very cluttered and over loaded, but the movement within his imagery and line work, creates a positive overall outcome.
Looking at his work you can see that he doesn't tend to use vibrant colours, the way of making his image pop is by adding contrast, you can see that Pollocks done this by using a small amount of a brighter colour against the ordinary dull outline he worked with.
