Name	Jackson Pollock (Paul Jackson Pollock)
Build	Slim
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
Occupation	Painter
Celebrity Index	Ja
Claim to Fame	icon of the abstract expressionist movement
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Trivia and Quotes

Quotes

Every good painter paints what he is.

(brainyquote.com)

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

(quotationspage.com)

Trivia

His "No. 5, 1948" became the world`s most expensive painting, when it was auctioned to an undisclosed bidder for $ 140 million (November 2006).

Is buried next to his wife Lee Krasner in Green River Cemetery in Springs, New York.

Best known for the paintings he created during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950.

Studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Arts Students League in New York.

The night he had his fatal car accident, his passengers were his lover Ruth Kligman and her friend Edith Metzger. Although Ruth survived, her friend Edith died along with the painter.

Is portrayed by Ed Harris in Pollock (2000)

American painter, who was an icon of the abstract expressionist movement.

See also Trivia Index (J) :: Quotes Index (J) :: Connections Index (J)

• Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner
• Jackson Pollock and Ruth Kligman

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