1829-1912  Related Paintings of william r clark :. | nedan | detta | mil efter mil ligger sturoknen ode erbjuder varken landmarken eller skugga mot den brannan de solen | alexander uon humboldt anvande denna flotte pa guayaquilfloden i ecuador under sin sydaneri kanska expedition 1799-1804 | hundsladarna ar ett snabbt och e ffektivt transportmedel over isvidderna |
Related Artists:
Anton Ritter von Stadler
painting Landschaft in 1909
Heywood Hardy
British 1843-1933
Jackson Pollock
l912--1956,U.S. painter. He grew up in California and Arizona. In the early 1930s he studied in New York City under Thomas Hart Benton, and later he was employed on the WPA Federal Art Project. In 1945 he married the artist Lee Krasner. Two years later, after several years of semiabstract work stimulated by psychotherapy, Pollock began to lay his canvas on the floor and pour or drip paint onto it in stages. This process permitted him to record the force and scope of his gestures in trajectories of enamel or aluminum paint that veiled the figurative elements found in his earlier work. The results were huge areas covered with complex and dynamic linear patterns that fuse image and form and engulf the vision of the spectator in their scale and intricacy. Pollock believed that art derived from the unconscious and judged his work and that of others on its inherent authenticity of personal expression. He became known as a leading practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, particularly the form known as action painting. Championed by critic Clement Greenberg and others, he became a celebrity. When he died in a car crash at 44, he was one of the few American painters to be recognized during his lifetime and afterward as the peer of 20th-century European masters of modern art.