particular year | Age | event |
one thousand nine hundred and twelve | 0 years old | On January 28, Jackson Pollock, the fifth son of the Pollock family, was born in Cody, Wyoming |
On November 28, the family moved to San Diego, California |
one thousand nine hundred and thirteen | 1 year old | In August, the family moved to Arizona Phoenix His father bought a farm |
one thousand nine hundred and seventeen | 5 years old | The farm was auctioned, and the family moved to Chico, California, and soon moved to Jamesville |
one thousand nine hundred and eighteen | 6 years old | In January, the family moved to Chico, California |
one thousand nine hundred and twenty | 8 years old | In January, the family moved to Janisville, California. |
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two | 10 years old | The family moved to Orland, California. The eldest son Charles left home《 Los Angeles Times 》He works and studies art at Otis Art Institute. He often sends some magazines to his brothers |
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three | 11 years old | In the autumn, the family moved back to Phoenix, Arizona |
In September, I entered primary school |
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four | 12 years old | In the spring, the family moved back to Chigo, California, and finally settled in Riverside, Los Angeles |
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six | 14 years old | Charles enrolled in the course of Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York |
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven | 15 years old | In summer, I worked with my fourth brother Sanford to measure the Grand Canyon |
In September, he entered the Riverside High School |
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight | 16 | In March, he was expelled from high school |
In the summer, the family moved to Los Angeles |
In autumn, I entered the Manual Arts High School. Influenced by the art teacher Frederick, I introduced some "theosophy" and dropped out of school once in the semester |
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine | 17 | In summer, I worked together with my father in surveying and building, and learned to smoke and drink |
In autumn, I learned to draw human bodies and make clay figurines in Handicraft High School; He was expelled from school soon and liked the works of Mexican painter Diego Rivera very much |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty | 18 years old | In spring, I returned to the Handicraft High School, but I was not a full-time student |
In June, I saw Prometheus, a Mexican painter Jos è Clemente Orozco, at Pomona College |
In autumn, we will go to New York with Charles and Frank |
On September 29, he enrolled in the course of Benton of the New York Art Students Union, briefly studied sculpture and stone carving outside the school, and acted as an action model in Benton's murals |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one | 19 | In February, we received subsidies to continue our courses in Benton |
In June, I hitchhiked back to Los Angeles with my classmates from New York |
In summer, I work in the forest farm in summer |
Fall, back to New York |
In October, registered for Benton's mural class and received subsidies |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two | 20 years old | In summer, I went sketching with two classmates from New York to Los Angeles; See the mural of another Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros |
In the autumn, I returned to New York, registered in Benton's mural class, and took the position of class management. The tuition was free |
In December, he became a member of the New York Art Students Union and practiced slate printing |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three | 21 years old | In January, he registered for John Sloan's body painting course and learned sculpture outside the school |
In February, registered the sculpture class of Robert Lavrent |
On March 6, his father LeRoy Pollock died |
From spring to summer, learn sculpture outside school |
In autumn, every Monday night, attend Benton's family concert until the spring of 1935 |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four | 22 | Participate in friends' mural work to increase practical experience |
In summer, I drove back to Los Angeles with my eldest brother Charles; Return to New York and go to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Ferry to Martha's Vineyard to visit Benton's summer villa; Sanford, the fourth brother, also came to New York, where they lived together and worked as a cleaner in primary school |
In December, she helped Mrs. Benton Rita sell artworks and paint paint on ceramic bowls by hand |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five | 23 years old | In February, participated in the group painting exhibition of Brooklyn Museum; Accept federal relief and clean up sculptures and monuments in the urban area |
In August, the federal government's art program [3] Sign the contract. Sanford and Pollock are both employed |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six | 24 years old | Working in the easel group |
In spring, I participated in the "work seminar" of Sigalos; Use new techniques and materials, including spray guns, paint sprayers, mixed pigments and enamel paint |
In autumn, rent a house in the suburbs of New Jersey to paint scenes |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven | 25 years old | Started psychotherapy for alcoholism |
After April, Charles moved to Detroit to work |
In December, I visited Benton in Kansas City, Missouri |
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight | 26 years old | In January, I returned to New York, passed by Detroit, and visited Charles |
In June, the federal work was dismissed because of the long absenteeism |
From June to September, I was admitted to New York Hospital for special psychological treatment |
On September 23, I returned to the easel group to work |
one thousand nine hundred and forty-three | 31 years old | Peggy Guggenheim, an American female collector, commissioned Jackson Pollock to create the mural for her villa lobby in Manhattan. This work is also Pollock's first large-scale work. [4] |
