6B's Homage to Jackson Pollock

Our Class in Canberra with Blue Poles

He was an American painter.

He is well known for his "drip & splash" paintings.

He was born in 1912 and died in 1956. 

He is thought to have led an unhappy personal life. 


A Jackson Pollock look alike
 (These paintings are our attempts at painting like him)

 

He was the first and most important member of the school of Abstract Expressionism.

He's sometimes known  as 'JACK THE DRIPPER'. 
 
  

Presto, a Jackson Pollock
 Pollock challenged the notion that a painting was the end result of something that was carefully planned.

Why must a painting 'look like' something?
Surely there is beauty in line, colour & the way the paint falls.

He didn't use an easel he put his canvas on the floor.

 He had a habit of drinking too much.

You have just seen 6B's Jackson Pollock gallery

He never  married, nor did he ever sell a painting for a reasonable price
in his lifetime. 
  
 
 

'It is impossible to make a forgery of Jackson Pollock's work.' Time magazine critic Robert Hughes claimed in 1982.
 
 
 
 
 

 

People still praise and study his work today. 

The students of 6B really enjoyed emulating his work

'....but it's not Art!'  :)

What do you think?



Holly & Claire