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JACKSON POLLOCK

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t.,j,bout p,,,,maprioTlJ", /-I, calkJ rbi, rn:bniq'" 'dirut' painting and c(6"fH'ud if '"

Nillit-, Amtrjam Indian _d paiming. mad< by !ricHing tbin Ii"n of r%u,-i!d rrmd

""",, a boriz..,,,,/ rurj"l<', PoJ/ock daim,,!, }H":'",'~r, !bat for him it "'a, 'a ,",am if

arrh-ing ill " IUlU,"nI"

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adson Pollock's groundbrcaking m .... hod

helped New York to ,uppbnt Paris H the

a,'a"t.g:trde "apinl of modern art. Br the

end of\\'o .. ld War IL it waS time ~"a culrural

ch.llengt: f""" the New World. l'oU()ck

dcda",1, 'I dOfl't «:t: whrthe 1 ",>hI.",. of modem

I",irning c:tn't he: «",,,<I as "ell h<--n:: :r; dll'"-It",,,·.

and h<-g;n hbring a tr.il ~" 'Jlh<,. Ab""""

Exp'L"«iofli,ts. Etcn Dc KHofling admittt,!. 'lie

bruke the i",,: Dt: Koofling .... 1 Poliocl. WITe

fritndlr ,i,al" it ".". the critics ,,-Ito liL .... I to

chat"l,;ofl (lfle og;illSt the (""L", But De IVlflIling

n<.~"r c:tptun.,1 the public imaginati(lfl as p(~Jo.d

(lid when he bo..Le ,,·ith t",dition.

I'oliock's A .... ion p'inting ".". inn""n""d LJ'

tho: Sur",.li,ts· 'p"J"hic au"" nati,,,,·. R ... jo:: .... ing

">.,,,1 and p.lette. and without anr 1'",liminarr

,h~t·hes. he 'pread unprim .... 1 Cam'as on" the

nom and I,,)un:d p,int SI ... ight f"" " a c:tn. or

he dripped and ait·k .... 1 it. using hrushes and

"iel<. Som .... im'" he inco"I_"a",d LruL.n gla«

(Jt wire It:.r a,U::d "'Xlun:.

Pollock is litmous ~" the wild drunken

ho:ho,;our tho t uk~"a"' lr liUed him. '~t he " ..... a

,olitarr i",~,'idL<tl. mJl (lfle ~" the groups or

id<.,,~)gics th.t h"",lcd arti,ts in tJ.:,,,, ,h JS.

I'~h,:k "as fn::t: of the 'an-hi",,";c:tl· al,,,(,,,cl\:

un«,.h;;tic:tt .... 1 and in",litttuaUr un"" "I>lic:t",d.

hischicl" " " "rihuti(lfl toan " ..... n, cxl"cssmlOtim

a",1 ll'r1S:ttiOfl through .I><t ... mull.