His aggressive, sometimes violent personality combined with a new painting technique elevated artist Jackson Pollock to legendary status among American painters. His turbulent outbursts and his drip paintings earned him a reputation that would later...

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. He was married to noted abstract painter Lee...

Museum of Modern Art, New York In the years between 1947 and 1950, a young painter whose work originated in a unique synthesis of Picasso's cubism, Miro's surrealism, Thomas Hart Benton's realism, and Native American art, forever changed the way paintings are...

JACKSON POLLOCK An American Saga. By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. Clarkson N. Potter. 934 pp. $29.95. Illustrated. In a celebrated exchange between Jackson Pollock and Hans Hofmann, the latter urged Pollock to work from nature as Hofmann did in Provincetown,...

Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter paintings, ferociously dense yet airily light. He ponders it for several minutes, tracing his index finger over its subtler patterns. “These don’t look like strokes,” he finally says in his...

Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter paintings, ferociously dense yet airily light. He ponders it for several minutes, tracing his index finger over its subtler patterns. “These don’t look like strokes,” he finally says in his...

Autumn Rhythm. Autumn Rhythm is oil on canvas, 8' 9" x 17' 3." It is my opinion, before you can critique Autumn Rhythm; you must try to understand the artist and his/her background.