On this date, January 28, in 1912, Jackson Pollock is born.
My son recently texted me a couple of pictures (see below) and asked “Which one of these is our friends’ 15 month old daughter and which one is Pollock?”
You can click the images to enlarge them if you think it will help you figure out the question.
“That’s a tough one,” I texted back. “They’re both pretty bad.”
It probably won’t surprise you to learn, after looking at his work, that Pollock suffered from severe mental health issues.
He died in August 1956 at age 44 in an alcohol-related single-car collision. I wonder what the inside of the car looked like. Maybe it should have been preserved as his final contribution to abstract art.
He also killed a passenger.