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Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American artist and a major force in the abstract expressionism movement.
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He was born in Cody, Wyoming, and later moved to New York in 1929, where he studied under Thomas Hart Benton[?]. Pollock moved away from figurative art, and developed techniques of splashing and dripping his paint onto canvas.
From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project[?], in the 1950s and 1960s Pollock was supported by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom[?]' (CCF).
Pollock's career was cut short when he died in a car crash in 1956.
He was the subject of the documentaries:
- Jackson Pollock on Museum Web Paris (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/)
- Pollock exhibition on MOMA Site (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/pollock/website100/)
- Pollock collection on the Guggenheim NY Site (http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_129_0)
- Pollock Movie (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0183659)
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