Jackson Pollock

Pollock (1912-56) was always controversial: hisfamous 'drip' paintings earned him notoriety and abuse, an added pressure on his life-long struggle with alcoholism. Despite his personal torments, he produced a body of work which helped forge the first great American art movement - Abstract Expressionism. This portrait mixes the reminiscences of his contemporaries with archive film and the testimony of his work to explore the legends which ding to him.