"Coursework.Info has provided an invaluable site for both myself and my students."
Pollock, Jackson (1912-56). American painter, the commanding figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
- Art (356 Essays)
-
Biology
(4,473 Essays)
-
Business Studies
(4,047 Essays)
-
Chemistry
(5,096 Essays)
- Classics (222 Essays)
-
Design & Technology
(881 Essays)
-
Drama
(1,150 Essays)
-
English Language
(5,164 Essays)
-
English Literature
(32,774 Essays)
-
Geography
(1,324 Essays)
-
Health and Social Care
(985 Essays)
-
History
(8,478 Essays)
-
Information & Communication Technology
(1,685 Essays)
- Law (449 Essays)
-
Maths
(3,447 Essays)
-
Media Studies
(1,548 Essays)
- Miscellaneous (415 Essays)
-
Modern Foreign Languages
(1,363 Essays)
- Music (150 Essays)
-
Physical Education (Sport & Coaching)
(892 Essays)
-
Physics
(3,237 Essays)
- Politics (1,526 Essays)
- Psychology (232 Essays)
-
Religious Studies (Philosophy & Ethics)
(6,607 Essays)
- Sociology (2,477 Essays)
- Welsh (79 Essays)
- Work experience reports (155 Essays)
- Words:
- 1677
- Submitted:
- Fri Oct 31 2003
... On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be literally `in' the painting. -- Jackson Pollock, 1947. Pollock, Jackson (1912-56). American painter, the commanding figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement. 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. From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project. By the mid 1940s he was painting in a completely abstract manner, and the `drip and splash' style for which he is best known emerged with some abruptness in 1947. Instead of using the traditional easel
Other Similar Coursework
Not found exactly what you were looking for? Here are some essays which are similar to this one:
| Title | Members Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| artist research into Tom Blackwell |
|
Read a preview → |
| Pablo Picasso's Guernica is at once the most monumental and comprehensive statement of social realism and dramatic manifesto against the brutality of war. |
|
Read a preview → |
| furture |
|
Read a preview → |
| History of Art - Post Impressionism. |
|
Read a preview → |
| My Autobiography. |
|
Read a preview → |
| Review of Mexico Illuminated/Iluminado. |
|
Read a preview → |
| Critical Study - "The Tree Frog" by Robert Rauschenberg. |
|
Read a preview → |
| My autobiography. |
|
Read a preview → |
| In the improvisation module my group were given two texts 'The family', a painting by Paula Rego and the story of John Tanner and Rachel Mclean. |
|
Read a preview → |
| travel |
|
Read a preview → |
Most Popular Art Essays
Want to know what everybody else is looking at? Here are some essays that have been the most popular choices of our Art essays:
| Title | Members Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Auerbach |
|
Read a preview → |
| My interpretation of Carl Phillips's poem referring to "luncheon on the grass" of Edouard Monet and the gender image on the painting itself between. |
|
Read a preview → |
| Francis Bacon |
|
Read a preview → |
| Discuss the ideas about the responsibilities of the individual that these three examples might be used to illustrate. |
|
Read a preview → |
Most Recent Art Essays
Looking for the most up to date essays? Here are some of the most recently added essays in our Art category:
| Title | Members Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Bennett Bean and his artwork |
|
Read a preview → |
| CheongSam- the history |
|
Read a preview → |
| Hideaki Miyamura- background and works |
|
Read a preview → |
| Pablo Picasso |
|
Read a preview → |
