Jackson Pollock
American painter (1912–1956)
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- Artists rank#45
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He flung paint at canvas laid flat on the floor and called it art — and the art world split down the middle. Pollock's drip paintings made abstraction physical, turning the act of painting into something closer to performance, and the mess into a method that still divides rooms.
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Paul Jackson Pollock was born January 28, 1912, and spent most of his life wrestling with alcohol and isolation. The breakthrough came when he abandoned the easel entirely, pouring and splashing household paint onto horizontal canvases, moving around them in what looked like frenetic dance — a technique critics named "action painting" and "all-over painting" because he used his whole body and covered every inch. Some saw immediacy and raw creation; others saw only randomness. In 1945 he married Lee Krasner, a painter who steadied his career and would later shape how the world remembered him. O…
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