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Pollock
started is career in 1929, studying at the Art Students' League.
At first he was influenced by the Mexican muralist painters and
by Surrealism. But he soon discovered his own way : during mid
1940's he painted in an abstract manner and his 'drip and splash'
style came out in the works from 1947. He avoid the traditional
technics of painting: he dripped his paint from cans and he manipulated
it with sticks or knives. He had something in common with the
Surrealists: the theories of authomatism that was the result ina
direct expression 
oft
he unconscious of the artist.
During the 1950's he continued with black and white figurative (less or more) and paintings in the all-over style.
In 1960's he was finally assumed as the most important figure of the movement, but he soon died in a car crash which, with his unhappy personal life, contributed to give him to legend.
He was the first all-over painter, he liked to pour instead of using brushes and he abandoned the clichè of the central motiv. His way of painting was like a dance in ecstasy. He painted no images : just action.
