Paul Jackson Pollock was a very influential painter from America, who was also a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. Mainly known as Jackson Pollock, he was well known for his unique style of drip painting. Pollock had many different techniques in his early years but was introduced to liquid paint around the 1930s. With this he began paint pouring and attempting to try several other techniques. With this transition, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the floor and this became how he developed his technique of "drip" painting, but also allowing for his nickname to be "Jack the Dripper". Pollock passed away in 1956, well after he accomplished his goal of finding the perfect painting technique. Leialoha Tucker
Perfect painting technique? Pretty much since ever and forever ago I decided that I hated whoever got famous for this particular technique of painting. How someone could drip and splatter paint on canvas in a seemingly uncontrolled and unintentional manner and make huge profit and gain huge praise because of it is absolutely ludicrous to me. I guess my feelings are stemming from emotions of jealousy maybe, but I just don't see much skill involved in this type of painting that consists just drips alone. Then again I've never been a huge fan of abstract art, but thanks for now giving me a name to identify with whenever I see this stuff in the future. BOO YOU JACK THE DRIPPER!
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Kevin
4/14/2014 01:16:48 pm
Keola I completely agree with you; I have never understood what makes abstract art as "abstract" as simply dripping onto a canvas deserving of such high praise. It's interesting how majority of the populace probably agrees with us as well; you see on TV shows all the time how the rich art critics want to buy work that they don't know is from mere infants. Sure, one can talk about topics such as negative space, color theory, contrast, etc, but is this kind of art really deserving of millions of dollars?
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