28 gen 1912 anni - Date of Birth

Descrizione:

Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912 and is the fifth and youngest son of an Irish-Scottish family. Pollock's father's proffesion as a surveyor would force the family to move multiple times around teh Southwest, until Pollock's father abandoned the family when Pollock was 9. Once Pollock left home, his father returned.

The rest of Pollock's childhood was quite tough but he drew to love nature - animals and the land. His unsettled early life growing up in the "Wild West" shaped him into the aggressively confident and self-assertive person he would become.

During most of his childhood Pollock lived in Echo Park, California were he enrolled at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School and befriended Philip Guston, a Canadian abstract artist. At this school, Pollock was introduced to theosophical ideas which prepared him for his later interests in surrealism.