How Did Jackson Pollock Contribute To Art

Jackson Pollock is an artist who is commonly acknowledged as someone who helped pave the path for contemporary artists. Pollock turned life and circumstance into a visual representation, giving way to ultimate expression and subjectivity. Jackson Pollock had many influences in his life: family (or lack thereof), teachers, friends, and other artists who all contributed to his work in some way. These influences of Pollock were a cocktail that helped to produce some of the greatest examples of modern art in the world, recycling inspiration and influence to newer artists then and now. Naturally, to understand Pollock you must come to know his very beginnings. Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming to his parents Stella and Leroy. Not much proof of Leroy’s involvement in Jackson or his siblings’ lives can be found after the first few years of his life. His father battled alcoholism, and the time that he was present in Jackson’s life was full of instabilities. Subsequently he was raised by his mother with some steady guidance from his older brother and he was very awkward and had already battled his own bout of alcoholism by the age of fifteen. By sixteen, he had been sent to Manual Arts School in California where he had been exposed to the Psycho Therapy of Carl Jung. Jackson had two brothers that were artist themselves. Right before the start of
Pollock was invited to an exhibition where he meet Lee Krasner. She wound up being his girlfriend and then wife, and was someone who understood him in ways others couldn’t (Landau 23). They shared an apartment in the city and she was very caring and nurturing of Pollock, something that he hadn’t experienced in most of his life, and she encouraged him and introduced him to other artists. Along with influences from Krasner, he was interested in Jungian