WorksheetsJackson Pollock
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which artist had the greatest influence on Jackson Pollock?
Pablo Picasso
Joan Miro
Roy Lichtenstein
Dan Flavin
Q1. Which of the following did NOT inspire Jackson Pollock to explore a range of styles of artistic expression?
Contemporary Mexican Murals
Surrealism
French Impressionistic Paintings
Navajo Sand Paintings
Why did Pollock's drip paintings cause a sensation in the art world?
It was a completely new and innovative method
People did not like it and did not consider it art
He was the most famous of all of the artists exploring with drip painting at the time
He had a very large display at the National Art Gallery that made him immediately famous
Who came up with the subtitle for Jackson Pollock's painting No 1, 1950?
Artist, Pablo Picasso
Art Critic, Clement Greenberg
President Harry Truman
His father, Leroy Pollock
Which art style is described as "completely innovative method of infusing images with emotional force and made the act of creating visible in the art work."?
Collage
Gouache
Pop Art
Drip Splatter Painting
Pollock painted his first wall-size work, called Mural (c. 1943–44). This painting represents Pollock’s breakthrough into a totally personal style that infuses......
his love of country music and Mexican culture
Benton’s compositional methods and energetic linear invention
a growing confidence after Peggy Guggenheim purchased his work
the Surrealist free association of motifs and conscious imagery.
In 1947 Pollock first used the process of pouring or dripping paint onto a flat canvas in stages, often alternating weeks of painting with weeks of contemplating before he finished a canvas.
This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of enamel or oil paint.
This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of acrylic or oil paint.
This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of enamel or aluminum paint.
This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of enamel or lead paint.
Abstract Expressionism is
artists expressing their feelings
using using abstract concepts in art
a spin off of German Expressionism
gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.
Pollock first began pouring paint, either straight out of the can or with sticks and hardened brushes, directly onto a canvas placed on the floor.
This allowed him to jump into the painting process without worrying about preparing painting materials
'the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture’.
He was not skilled in painting realistically using traditional methods
It started as an accident, when he kicked a can onto a canvas.
Pollock's “veiling” was
covering a large area of his studio floor with canvas, to allow him to use his drip painting technique
The process he used in layering colour, line and shape on top of each other to create a mysterious sense of depth, based on the work of Monet's "Water Lilies"
not thinking about the art work until he stood before the canvas and started painting.
a form of free association from which he began most of his major paintings. The results, in effect, were huge areas covered with complex linear patterns that fused image and form; these works engulfed the spectator in their scale and intricacy.
Blue Poles was painted at the end of Pollock's career.
It differs from his earlier drip paintings..
the use of red and yellow
the use of dark bands
it is much larger than the previous paintings
because he was now a famous artist.
Who coined the term, Action painting
Clement Greenberg
Richard Rosenberg
Lee Krasner
Jackson Pollock
Name 3 artists whose work reflected the ‘inner world’ of the unconscious
Picasso
Salvador Dali
Caravaggio
Jackson Pollock
which woman played a significant role in Pollock's life
Jean Rasner
Penny Guggenham
Lee Krasner
Frida Kahlo
Pollock is famous as an artist because
he liberated the way artist's could engage with the making of the work
he avoided any representation of reality
he had a difficult and interesting life
he was a millionaire when he died
