'''Jackson Pollock''' (1912-1956) was an American [[painter]]. He began to study painting in 1929 at the Art Students’ League, New York, under the Regionalist painter [[Thomas Hart Benton]]. During the 1930s he worked in the manner of the Regionalists, being influenced also by the Mexican muralist painters ([[Jose Clemente Orozco]], [[Diego Rivera]], [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]]) and by certain aspects of [[Surrealism]]. From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project. [http://artistquoteoftheday.wordpress.com/] | '''Jackson Pollock''' (1912-1956) was an American [[painter]]. He began to study painting in 1929 at the Art Students’ League, New York, under the Regionalist painter [[Thomas Hart Benton]]. During the 1930s he worked in the manner of the Regionalists, being influenced also by the Mexican muralist painters ([[Jose Clemente Orozco]], [[Diego Rivera]], [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]]) and by certain aspects of [[Surrealism]]. From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project. [http://artistquoteoftheday.wordpress.com/] |