American painter, the most prominent member of Abstract Expressionism. Born in Cody, Wyoming and attended the Art Students League of New York with Thomas Hart Benton. He spent several years traveling the country and drawing. In late 1930 and early 1940 in New York collaborated on projects for Administration Federal Art Project (Federal Art Project). His early works, in the naturalistic style of Benton, Americans depicting scenes realistically. Between 1943 and 1947 Pollock, influenced by surrealism, adopted a more free and abstract, as in The Little Foxes (1943, Museum of Modern Art, New York). In 1947 Pollock evolved into abstract expressionism, developed the technique of action painting or dripping, consisting of pouring, dripping and throwing paint on unstretched canvas. Pollock made by this method interwoven forms schemes as shown in the examples Full fathom five and Lucifer (both 1947, Museum of Modern Art, New York). Also belonging to this time Brown and Silver I (1951, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid). After 1950 his style changed again, returning to figuration in black and white, in a virtuoso style. Among the paintings highlights of your last period grayness Ocean (1953, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York). He died on August 11, 1956 following an automobile accident.
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