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“I’m very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you’re painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. We’re all of us influenced by Freud, I guess. I’ve been a Jungian for a long time.”[24]

Age 44

The decentralised art of Mondrian, receiving attention in the mid-1920s, has been described as presenting “…a grid-based city without a distinct center or downtown.”[25] He was reflecting the unsettled era, one in which the teenage Pollock would begin his awareness of the art world.

In 1924, the Pollock family moved back to Chico for a while, but then they moved the next year to Riverdale, a suburb of Los Angeles. Jackson attended Riverdale High School, but did not adjust well to the students or the classes.

In 1925, Picasso showed Three Dancers. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published. The New Yorker magazine began. In 1926, Claude Monet (b.1840) died. At age twenty-two, Willem de Kooning came to the United States from Rotterdam. Chicago-style jazz invaded Europe.