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- United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
How To Use Jackson Pollock In A Sentence
- The humble pollack, which is close to a slang word for testicles, will be sold by Sainsbury's as "colin" - pronounced "co-lan," and French for the closely related hake - with packaging inspired by artist Jackson Pollock. Undefined
- The poem is still at the Jackson Pollock stage - a mess of scratchy lines and blobs of ink on a yellow ground.
- Early Jackson Pollock oil studies of horses, presented by Joan T. Washburn, were knockouts.
- Two of Smith's untitled, long vertical paintings, one from 1956 in which suggestions of Jackson Pollock shine forth from a ladderlike assemblage of forms, and another from 1958 in which blunt, Guston-like dark lines give form to a spray enamel surface, are some of the most exuberant objects in either show. Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips
- What's provocative about Copeland's book is how he doesn't stick to just what's on the stage, as so many dance-critic purists do, but draws associations and contrasts with other art dynamics, such as demonstrating how Cunningham's light, flexible, transistorized movements answered the heavy clomp and primitivism of Jackson Pollock's action painting and the archetypal contortions of Martha Graham. Mind Expansion thru Sight and Sound: James Wolcott
- Other times, work that was never intended to be mistaken for the real thing (such as splatter paintings "in the style of" Jackson Pollock used by interior decorators) find their way into the market — and are assumed to be lost masterpieces. The Frida Fighters
- His esthetic interests ran to European Surrealism, and with William Baziotes and Jackson Pollock he began to experiment with nontraditional ways of making art, including automatism.
- He then spent two years in Paris, and on his return to New York worked in the prevailing Abstract Expressionist idiom, being particularly influenced by Jackson Pollock.
- His hatred of abstract painting - even of people like Jackson Pollock and Nicholson.
- Jackson Pollock was an American painter who worked by splashing and dribbling paint on canvas.