Paul Jackson Pollock was an amazing alcoholic artist. Jackson Pollock was one of the most controversial Americans of the 1930s. He helped shape the way America is today, yet he is not on the “100 Most Influential Americans.” (https://www.theatlantic.com) However I believe he should be on the list, simply because Jackson Pollock changed how people see the world. Jackson Pollock was born January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He was raised mainly by his Older brother who greatly influenced his art. “However, Pollock did not start out as a revolutionary painter. He developed the artistic process he became famous for over many years.” (learningenglish.voa news.com) Pollock is most well known for his drip style painting method. This method is a type …show more content…
Plus him some what justifying street art doesn't help him out. His father was an abusive alcoholic, and even that didn’t stop Pollock from falling under the influence of alcoholism himself. Though he did end up paying for it on August 11, 1956 when Pollock died at the age of 44 from drunk driving. (biography.com) And I see why a school drop out isn’t someone that is exactly ideal to represent the making of America, but he has done so much more than those mistakes and should be remembered for the good he did in his life. Like how Pollock’s art helped put America on the map. “Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter, and the leading force behind the abstract expressionist movement in the art world.” (www.jackson-pollock.org) He helped bring America into the art world and helped America stand out from the rest of the world. So while Pollock wasn’t a picture perfect person, he did influence America in a big way. He brought a new light to the world, allowing people to see what he saw in a new point of view when people only saw pain and sadness. which led to the U.S. being one of the biggest media strong countries in the world. Paul Jackson Pollock belongs on the 100 Most Influential Americans list way more than people
During Vincent Van Gogh’s childhood years, and even before he was born, impressionism was the most common form of art. Impressionism was a very limiting type of art, with certain colors and scenes one must paint with. A few artists had grown tired of impressionism, however, and wanted to create their own genre of art. These artists, including Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Cezanne, hoped to better express themselves by painting ...
Jackson Pollock." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed. Vol. 12. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 379-380. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 2 Apr. 2014.
...rious Americans without a doubt impacted our nation immensely. Thomas Jefferson was primarily responsible for the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. This treaty doubled the physical size of the United States. It also guaranteed that we would have access to key water ways for supply transportation purposes. The Lewis and Clark Expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are the reason we have so much information about our country and its inhabitants. These three men will forever be famous historical figures in our American history. The impact of their actions on America as we know it will be passed on to all the generations to come.
Jackson can be listed among the great men that formed this country to what it is today.
Norman Rockwell is best known for his depictions of dail life of a rural America. Rockwell’s goals in art revolved around his desire to create an ideal America. He said “ I paint life as I would like it to be.”
Jackson Pollock was an American abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912. He was the youngest of his five brothers. Even though he was born on a farm, he never milked a cow and he was terrified of horses because he grew up in California. He dropped out of high school at the age of seventeen and proceeded to move to New York City with his older brother, Charles, and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Thomas Benton was already a great artist at the time in which Pollock studied with him. Benton acted like the father figure in Pollock’s life to replace the original that wasn’t there. Benton was known for his large murals that appear on ceilings or walls. “Jack was a rebellious sort at all times,” recalls his classmate and friend, artist Harold Lehman. He grew his hair long and helped pen a manifesto denouncing athletics, even though “he had a muscular build and the school wanted to put him on the football team,” says former teacher Doug Lemon. Pollock always was upset with himself in his studies because he had troubles drawing things like they were supposed to look. From 1938 to 1942, Jackson joined a Mexican workshop of people with a painter named David Siqueiros. This workshop painted the murals for the WPA Federal Art Projects. This new group of people started experimenting with new types of paint and new ways of applying it to large canvas. People say that this time period was when Jackson was stimulated with ideas from looking at the Mexican or WPA murals. Looking at paintings from Picasso and the surrealists also inspired Jackson at this time. The type of paint they used was mixing oil colors with paint used for painting cars. Jackson noticed that the shapes and colors they created were just as beautiful as anything else was. Jackson realized that you didn’t have to be able to draw perfect to make beautiful paintings. Jackson started developing a whole new way of painting that he had never tried before and his paintings were starting to look totally different from before.
...mount of goods being produced daily. During this time, however, there were a great deal of thinkers and important political people who heavily influenced the America people. People such as Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Bellamy and his followers and Jane Addams changed the landscape of America by successfully understanding what was wrong with the new Industrial America and how to go about fixing it. In their own ways, each individual contributed a great deal to the American society, as they helped advanced it on its path of becoming what it is today.
While his life was building up to the moment he became rich off of his creativity, it helped him become the man he is today. No matter how unique his life has been, one thing has been a constant in his life, along with many others; He was influenced by the color and personality shown through a piece of art, which was the intent in the first place.
In U.S. history, there are an abundance of famous figures that shape the world we live in today. John Quincy Adams played a key role in the way our world operates. Adams’ early life, political career, and his legacy, has shaped and modernized the United States today.
... States. With all of his accomplishments and great achievements Andrew Jackson will be known as responsible for the rise of democracy in the U.S. If Andrew Jackson was not elected as president, our nation could be significantly different than the one we know today.
In conclusion, Andrew Jackson is an important yet controversial person. He was important because of his military contributions, him founding the democratic party, and him being the seventh president of the United States. He was controversial because of the Indian Removal Act, him shutting down the Second National Bank, and him shooting and killing Charles
Pollock uses different aspects of writing to back up her thesis and to emphasis that there is more to the subject the artist use in their creation. By using a variety of resources and counter-arguing them, she is backing up her own thesis and proving that there is a stereotype in art history where art historians do not explain past the artistic influence thus does not fully explain an artist or their artworks. She makes a point that because of this, there has to be changes to art practices today in order to fully understand the meaning behind artworks.
...artists that the art world, especially the world of American art, owes a great deal of gratitude.
Did you know that Norman Rockwell raised over $132 million dollars for the World War II? Norman Rockwell was an excellent illustrator that was born in American and stayed in The United States to paint. American illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was a consequential contributor to American illustrating in the early and mid 1900s. Some of his important works are over 320+ illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post, and many persuading paintings including “Freedom of Speech” and “The Problem We All Live With.”
He was very important in the art world because he furthered Impressionism in its early stages, and is known as the father of pointillism, a type of Impressionism that he created. He also influenced future artists with his work, such as Vincent van Gogh.