Is it the best painter of life in the United States?
That was the question direct, provocative in an August 1949 LIFE magazine article reputation of helped to cement Jackson Pollock. It was a question Pollock spent much of the rest of his life struggling to answer - while waiting desperately prove to skeptics for life was right when not even one question so monumental in the first place.
As the single most recognizable practitioner of abstract expressionism - the movement that put to United States and, specifically, post World War II New York at the epicenter of the art of painting - Pollock was a star of genuine art. But soon both abandoned the radical technique "drip" that had earned him fame and vilipendio among some art critics, and he spent the last years of his life battling the twin demons of depression and alcoholism.
Here, life presents outtakes from photographer Martha Holmes 1949 with Pollock - shoot images that offer a unique portrait of the artist's life House with wife and fellow painter Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island and the unique method of work which made him an icon of the art world.
With a down payment provided to them by art dealer Peggy Guggenheim, Pollock Krasner bought lands in the village of Springs, New York and moved to the House that would be residence of Pollock in the last decade of his life. Pollock developed a small near stable in a Studio, where she was to create many of his most famous works. As his fame grew, the small town of springs - part of East Hampton, attracted other great artists and writers, such as Willem de Kooning, Kurt Vonnegut, Nora Ephron, Philip Roth and Joseph Heller.
Despite leaving the city to live on a farm near the ocean, it is difficult to say that nature was a source of inspiration for paintings of Pollock, which were so abstract that its only apparent source was subconscious of the artist. Even so, the natural world found his way in his paintings in the form of sand and other materials that the artist applied routinely to his canvas, along with his paintings, while job titles - as his gigantic (1950) autumn rhythm - reflect a sensibility attuned to the seasons of the year.
Pollock's work was often referred to as "action painting" and the performance of dance in which he hooked while a painting was essential to the aesthetic result. Instead of using a Sawhorse, stretches a canvas on the floor of his barn and they scamper around all four sides painted. Instead of using brushes, sticks to flick and drip paint he used, or he poured directly Tin, favoring the enamels on traditional oils.
Today, you can get a painting of "Drip period" Pollock North of $100 million in an auction.
When she became successful and famous, Pollock bought his own truck to the air free, a 1950 Oldsmobile 88 convertible. This was the vehicle driving on August 11, 1956, when, less of a mile from his home, he drove off the road and overturned the car, killing himself and a passenger, Edith Metzger and wounding her lover Ruth Kligman.
Krasner, a gifted abstract painter in his own right, put career on hold during the decade with Pollock of Long Island House for supporting the career of her husband. After his death, she began to paint in the barn that had been his study. When she died in 1984, at age 76, was finally recognized by his own work, and not simply as "The Lady Jackson Pollock". Today, farm and barn Studio married painters include a museum dedicated to the study of the working life intertwined.
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