"Action Jackson" - Jackson Pollock, action painter.
Perched on the forefront of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Pollock served as the focus for the public eye. Attention was drawn to the avant-garde painter in 1943 with his first one-man show. Pollock employed all kinds of crazy tools when working - house-painting brushes, basting syringes, sticks, and trowels. He was known for "energy made visible, a kind of trance-like pictorial choreography in which the spectator is invited to join in the dance." Most of Pollock's works were completed during his "fertile" years, 1948 through 1950. Born in Wyoming and raised in California, Pollock died young in a 1956 car wreck. It could be said, however, that Jackson Pollock had served his purpose: the further liberation of the constraints of the art world.
-Matthew Pavesich (Fleming, William. Art & Ideas. Ninth Ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995.)
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