Swiss psychoanalyst~ collective
unconscious; beneath one's
private memories is a storehouse
of feelings and symbolic
associations common to all
humans
Hans Hoffman
German painter who attended the NY
Art Student's League, taught Krasner
and had a close relationship with
Pollock; he believed that there should
be contrast in the color, texture and
form of a painting; wanted to stay
linked to the world of objects
Lee Krasner
wife of Pollock (mother-son relationship),
student of Hoffman, devoted her life to
making Pollock a greatly known artist;
introduced him to Peggy Guggenheim
William de
Kooning
a Dutch American expressionist artist who
put cubism, surrealism, and expressionism
together in his work; famous for his pictures
of women, blended the figure and the
ground, inspired by Picasso
Thomas
Hart Benton
mentor of Pollock, Threshing Wheat~
showed the changing tech in the West
and the commercialization (regionalism),
teaches @ the Art Student's League
David Siqueros
encouraged
abstractism
Pablo Picasso
created the first cubist
painting; was not liked
by Pollock; distorted
human figure
Peggy Guggenheim
a gallery owner who gave Pollock a stipen to paint; he
would get money for the paintings he sold and would
get no extra money if the paintings did not sell;
eventually her gallery closes, and Pollock was not paid
Hans Namuth
photographer and
filmmaker who
documented Pollock; this
documentation led to
Pollock's downfall back into
alcoholism
Clement Greenberg
critic that helped make
Pollock's career by getting
him on the cover of Time
Magazine
Jack the Dripper
a nickname given to
Pollock between
1947-1950 when he
began Drip Painting
Ruth Kligman
Pollock's girlfriend whom he had an
affair with while married to Krasner; she
was the only one to survive the crash
Edith metzer
a friend of Klingman who
was killed in the car crash
caused by Pollock
David Alfaro Siqueros
a Mexican social realist painter
who inspired Pollock with his
nontraditional painting techniques
like air brushing and pouring
Joan Miro
Spanish painter who
focused on abstractism
and surrealism; Pollock
studied his work for the
distorted human form
Ed Harris
directed and acted the part
of Pollock in the Hollywood
film Pollock
Marcia Gay harden
played the part of Lee
Krasner in the
Hollywood film Pollock
Robert Mother well
an American painter who
attended the NY School The Art
Student' s League; dramatic
and bright brush strokes,
energetic imagery, pure
emotional response. His
collage also concerned itself
with an awareness of the
presence of the artist in a
work. Using torn paper on
minimalist backgrounds,
Arshile Gorky
he was an ethnically Armenian
painter who played a large role in
the emergence of the Abstractism
Era; he borrowed from the
surrealist, but incorporated more
color and personal content;
Art Terms
Abstract
Expressionism
(40s&50s) expressing
profound social alienation
in the wake of WW2,
making art that was both
moral and universal
action
painting~active
paint handling
color field
painting~broad
sweeping
expanses of
color
borrowed from
the surrealist
the idea of
examining the
unconscious
Cubism
look @
something from
multiple angles @
the same time
Regionalism/
American
Scene Painting
The artistic focus was from artists
who shunned city life, and rapidly
developing technological advances, to
create scenes of rural life; adopted by
Benton and for a short time,Pollock
Automatism
paint is applied
directly to the canvas
without any planning
or preconceived ideas
Drip Painting
paint is dripped or poured
onto the canvas; an art form
pioneered by Jackson Pollock
Navajo Sand Painting
paints loosely upon the ground of a hogan,
where the ceremony takes place, or on a
buckskin or cloth tarpaulin, by letting the
coloured sands flow through his fingers; this
inspired Pollock as he painted on the ground
letting the paint flow from his sticks and brushes
Abstraction
seeks to break away
from traditional
representation of
physical objects;
Pollock rarely showed
identifiable figures in
his paintings
Places/Things
WPA (The
Works Project
Administration
gov't pays artist to document
and reguevenate through
art; Pollock and his brother
join
The Springs,
Long Island
where Pollock and Krasner move to
buy their first house; Pollock is very
productive here~ using an
abandoned barn as his studio
The Art Student's League
@ age 18 Pollock moved to NYC to study
here; met Benton here; during his time
here he participated in his first
exhibition @ Brooklyn Museum