Jackson Pollock was born in 1912. He studied art in New York and after suffering with alcoholism for some years, he underwent psychotherapy based on the ideas of Carl Jung. He was encouraged to use his art as a way of expressing his feelings and thoughts and many of the Jungian principles he acquired are visible in his paintings. Pollock's particular style of painting, called “dripping”, or “all-over” consisted of splattering paint on very large canvases in a seemingly random way. This technique is quite typical of the abstract expressionist movement to which Pollock belonged. It is thought that this technique brought about the concept of “action-painting”. A film was made about him in 2000 featuring actors like Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden and Jennifer Connelly.
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