Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)

Homework

Hans Namuth, Jackson Pollock painting, 1950

Hans Namuth, Jackson Pollock at work, 1950

Jackson Pollock, She-Wolf, 1943, oil, gouache and plaster on canvas, New York, Musem of Modern Art

Jackson Pollock, Full Fathom Five, 1947, oil on canvas with nails, buttons, key, coins, etc., New York, Museum of Modern Art

Jackson Pollock, Lavender mist : Number 1, 1950, oil, enamel and aluminum on canvas, Washington, National Gallery of Art

Jackson Pollock, Going West,1935, oil on berboard, National Museum of American Art

Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret, 1943, oil on canvas, MOMA,  San Francisco

Jackson Pollock, Male and Female, 1942, oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jackson Pollock, Number 9A-Summertime, 1948, oil, enamel and house paint on canvas, London, Tate Museum

Jackson Pollock, Number 26A,Black and White, 1948, enamel on canvas, Centre Georges Pompidou

Articles

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/arts/ design/authenticity-of-trove-of-pollocksand-rothkos-goes-to-court.html? _r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/ 2011/09/mark-rothko-abstractexpressionism-and-the-decline-of-westernart-part-3/

Questions

1) Had anyone heard of Jackson Pollock before this?
2) Where did Pollock spend most of his artistic career?
3) What are a few techniques Pollock is most known for?
4) What were a few of his inuences?
5) What artistic movements inuenced Pollock?
6) Which of these works do you prefer?
7) Why?
8) Do you prefer his drip paintings or his earlier work?
9) Why was he critiqued?
10) Where can we nd one of Pollock's works in Paris?

Vocabulary

- - - - - - - - - - Sprinkle : saupoudrer
Stance : position
Paramount : trs important
Basting : arrosant
To drip : couler
Tremendous : vertigineux, norme
Shimmery : scintillant
Tearing : arrachement, dchirement
A take : interprtation
To sear : bruler