Fine Arts 3 Assignment: Jackson Pollock Artist Research and Analysis

This homework assignment focuses on the analysis of visual artist Jackson Pollock. The student provides details about Pollock's birth, country of origin, and the website used for research. The assignment covers Pollock's primary media, locations of his work, and a personal reflection on why the artist is interesting. It includes a description of one of Pollock's artworks, "Scent and Search", including its media and content. The student also provides the website where the artwork was found and includes references. The assignment follows a question-and-answer format as requested by the assignment brief, covering the artist's biography, techniques, and the impact of his work in the field of art.

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1. Artist name, year of birth, country of birth and PAGE artist is found in your textbook.
Paul Jackson Pollack, year of birth is 28th January, 1912, born in Wyoming, United
States.
2. The complete website where you found information about the artist. This website must be
an "informational" site that is specific to your artist.
The website where the information of Jackson Pollack is found is https://www.jackson-
pollock.org/. This website has the detailed information about the artist notable artworks along
with biography and quotes penned by the artist (jackson-pollock.org, 2020).
3. What is his/her primary media?
The media that was used by Jackson Pollack was sculpture, and he used various
watercolors and oil paints for painting, especially using hardened brushes even using basted
syringes for painting. The sculpture form of media generally consists of using materials like clay,
wax, stone, metal, fabric and many more, which helped in carving, modelling, casting, welding
to represent a form of art.
4. List TWO locations where the artist's work is currently displayed or was recently
displayed. Be specific.
The notable art “Mural” was displayed in Lowa City for a tenure of nine years, as it was
removed from Lowa City to UI Museum Art due to the 2008 flooding of Lowa River. Another
popular work, which marked his career in movement of “Abstract Expressionism”, was the No.1,
1949, and the picture is displayed in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
( telegraph.co.uk, 2020).
5. Write a short paragraph about why this artist interests you. Your response must be at least
60 words for full credit.

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Jackson Paul Pollack at the age of eighteen left his hometown to become an artist. He
quickly enrolled with Arty Students League, where Thomas Hart Benton became his mentor. He
explained that Pollack had an intense sense of art; he had the ability to create unique pieces of art
due to his understanding of rhythmical relation and intuition while creating something
(moma.org (2020).). He interests me because he brought a change in the field of art by his
representation of abstract sculpting. He was driven and passionate, which can be clearly
understood by the materials he used, he was vulnerable while portraying his art which he
represented by using clay, wax, basted brushes and syringes to bring out the life of his art.
Abstract art intrigues people; it contains meaningful ideas, which leads to imagination. Jackson
Pollack’s paintings were unorthodox, the technique he specially used defying the odds of society
to express his feelings and ideas to a broader audience.
6. On the Internet, locate one piece of the artist's work that is not found in Introduction to
Art. Then—IN YOUR OWN WORDS—fully describe its media (form/materials) and
content (meaning/story). Include the full website where you found the piece.
The “Scent and Search” painting were the last artwork done by Jackson Pollock in the
year 1955 before his death. This painting also represents abstract artwork, and are done by using
oil paintings. He generally used oil paintings on his canvas, and the paintings were nor typically
done by smooth brushes, but includes uses of wall painting brushes, color are poured and
splattered, with some layered brushwork. The website that the artwork is displayed is
http://artsaeculum.blogspot.com/2013/01/1955-jackson-pollack-scentsearch.html.

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References
telegraph.co.uk (2020). 60 years after his death - where to see the work of Jackson Pollock.
Retrieved 30 March 2020, from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/north-
america/united-states/articles/Jackson-Pollock-where-to-see-his-art-around-the-world/
jackson-pollock.org (2020). Retrieved 30 March 2020, from
https://www.jackson-pollock.org/the-flame.jsp
moma.org (2020). Retrieved 30 March 2020, from
https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2013/04/17/momas-jackson-pollock-
conservation-project-insight-into-the-artists-process/