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Jackson Pollock is a world renowned artist known for his art works using dripping techniques. He started his art career when he enrolled in the Manual Art High School. He was influenced by Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky that painted in a very spiritual way.He eventually moved to New York with his brother Chris in 1933 where he enrolled in an art school. When he was finished, he was stuck in poverty due to the Great Depression and had no financial future. He was eventually hired by the WPB Federal Art Project, this gave him a paycheck every month and was now able to express himself again. After the WPB Federal Art Project closed down, he found a job at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery which provided him financial security once again. He painted his first wall mural called Mural. He eventually started his work as an abstract artist. Most of his paintings were made out of a huge canvas tacked to the floor. He would start painting randomly painting sometimes creating figures or patterns. Even thought the paintings look like a 9 year old drew it, the paintings represent the freedom of the artist to do whatever he feels is necessary to create a piece of art. Unfortunately he died in a car accident much later in his life. This relates to Holden because he is a very rebellious person living in a time where rebellion was unheard of. This was the same as Jackson Pollock because he was one of first artists to enact this movement of random paintings and going against artist.

Here is my paragraph on Jackson Pollock

Here are some paintings that Jackson Pollock has done in the past.