That was the direct, provocative question asked in an August 1949 LIFE magazine article that helped cement Jackson Pollock’s reputation. It was a question Pollock spent much of the rest of his ...

Paul Jackson Pollock was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, one of five sons. The family bounced around the Southwest trying to eke out a living. Still, Pollock's mother encouraged his early interest ...

We explore the life, evolution, and legacy of Jackson Pollock ... made by dropping colored sand on the ground. In the early '40s, Pollock was making paintings with imagery derived from mythology ...

“Jackson Pollock: The Early Years” is currently on display at the Picasso Museum in Paris. Featuring about 100 artworks, the show focuses on the period between 1938 (when Pollock started ...

Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles ... Influenced by Native American art in his early life, and certain aspects of Surrealism and Modernism later, Pollock produced his “action painting” with the ...

Naifeh and Smith won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for “Jackson Pollock: An American Saga ... to keep painting when early teachers disparaged his work,” Michiko Kakutani wrote in the ...

Pollock's reputation rises turbulently and quickly, as evidenced by a Life magazine headline in 1949 that readd: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" Despite the ...

When Jackson Pollock smashed ... artist of the 20th century, Pollock still makes headlines—most of them containing dollar signs. Last November an early Pollock drip painting, "Number 5, 1948 ...