Jackson gained an interest in art while attending Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles but he never finished. Instead he followed his oldest brother Charles to New York to study with the painter Thomas Hart Benton, at The Art Students League in 1930. Benton taught Pollock that the artist’s experience while painting was more important then the finished project. Pollock was influenced by not only Benton but by Picasso and by a number of Spanish painters. In 1936 Pollock attended Siqueiros’ workshop where he discovered the use of enamel paint and was encouraged to try unorthodox techniques like pouring and flinging the paint to create a spontaneous effect.

he easel division of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. He would paint one painting a month for a public building which gave him an income for nearly eight years. This allowed him to concentrate on his work. By the early 1940's, Native American motifs played a central role in his compositions, marking the beginnings of a mature style.

Jackson Pollock was very significant to American art. ARTNews magazine selected him as one of the top twenty-five most important western artists ever. He was a leader of the abstract expressionist movement. He developed the action painting technique of dripping paint from stick or trowels or pouring it from a can onto huge canvases that were placed on the floor. Pollock influenced many painters and sculptors to use his techniques of dripping paint and changing their mind set. He got them to focus on the process of the creation and not the finished project. He was the most modern painter of his time.

Unfortunately Jackson began drinking again and his style once again changed. he began to give up color and only create black paintings on unprimed canvases. For the next five years Pollock struggled with his alcohol problem, but then his style changed yet again and became more colorful and his gestures became richer and more various.

Pollock's fame caused him to give up drinking for two years during which he created some of his most beautiful masterpieces. In his studio, he spread his canvas on the floor and developed hi

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