MUECK:

Born in 1958 to German parents in Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the family
business of puppetry and doll-making.
Mueck's sculpture responds to the minute details of the human body, playing with scale to
produce engrossing visual images (a style known as hyperrealism). Mueck spends a long time,
sometimes more than a year, creating each sculpture.[13] His subject matter is deeply private,
and is often concerned with peoples unspoken thoughts and feelings.
Mueck first came to public attention with his sculpture "Dead Dad". This portrayal of his
recently deceased father - at roughly half-scale [4] and made from memory and imagination -
was included in the 1997 exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
POLLOCK:
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 August 11, 1956), known professionally
as Jackson Pollock, was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract
expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.
During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of
his generation. Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled
with alcoholism for most of his life
Pollock started using synthetic resin-based paints called alkyd enamels, which at that time was
a novel medium. Pollock described this use of household paints, instead of artists paints, as "a
natural growth out of a need".[40] He used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes
as paint applicators. Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of
the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more
immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto the
canvas. By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new
dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions.