Jackson Pollock born, Paul Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912, in Cody Wyoming. While he was born in Wyoming he spent the majority of his childhood in Arizona and California. He was kicked out of two different high schools eventually he went to study at the Arts Student League in New York City, New York. 

The style of painting that Pollock is most known for is Abstract Expressionism. The drip period of painting was when Jackson Pollock became known during 1947-1950. The colors that Pollock would use tended to be on the darker side.

I first was exposed to drip-style paintings in elementary school. In fifth grade, we had Jackson Pollock day where we would go to the high school and do drip-style paintings on paper and ceiling tiles. The ceiling tiles were then put back in the ceiling of our art room to live forever which now looking back I think is pretty cool.

During his later years, Pollock would make sculptures by using wire gauze and plaster. Jackson Pollock died, on August 11, 1956, in a single-car accident while he was driving under the influence. He died in Springs, New York at the age of 44.