Jackson Pollock Facts | Facts about Jackson Pollocks

How did Jackson Pollock paint?

Jackson Pollock made his famous drip paintings by laying canvases on the floor and pouring or flinging paint onto them.

Time magazine nicknamed Jackson Pollock "Jack the Dripper."

Jackson Pollock studied under painter Thomas Hart Benton.

Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948" reportedly sold for about $140 million in a 2006 private sale.

Photographer Hans Namuth photographed and filmed Jackson Pollock while he painted.

Physicist Richard Taylor argued that Jackson Pollock's drip paintings contain fractal patterns.

Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming.

In 1949, Life magazine asked whether Jackson Pollock was the greatest living painter in the US.

Jackson Pollock was married to painter Lee Krasner.

The CIA is reported to have quietly promoted Abstract Expressionism abroad during the Cold War.