Painter Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, USA. He died on August 11, 1956.
He studied at the Los Angeles Art School from 1928 and at the Art Students League in New York from 1930. While there, he was taught by painter Thomas Hart Benson. After graduating, he worked for the Federal Art Project, a program supporting artists, and served as an assistant to Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros and others. However, in the late 1930s, he began to suffer from alcoholism and was fired from his job.
Influenced by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, he became an Abstract Expressionist in the 1940s, and began using techniques such as "dripping," in which paint was dripped from the air with a brush or trowel onto a canvas spread on the floor, and "poling," in which lines were drawn. Though his work was met with mixed reviews, it was met with praise from critics such as Clement Greenberg, resulting in his breakthrough and his recognition as a leading figure in "action painting."

In the 1950s, his alcoholism relapsed, and his style became increasingly unstable. While his works were not selling and he was struggling to find a new direction, he died in a car accident in August 1956. His life story was made into a film in 2000, "Pollock: A Portrait of a Young Woman," directed and starring Ed Harris.

In Japan, a retrospective exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth was held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in 2012. Furthermore, to commemorate its reopening in October last year, Dior Homme's Omotesando store released wallets featuring patterns inspired by his work.