1. Jackson Pollock
( ) American painter and the commanding figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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3. Jackson Pollock Influential American Painter
Major figure in the abstract expressionist movement

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5. Jackson Pollock Painted in a completely abstract manner
Best known for the “drip and splash style”

6. Jackson Pollock Did not use the traditional easel
Fixed his canvas to the floor or the wall
Poured and dripped his paint from a can

7. Jackson Pollock Did not use brushes to apply the paint
Manipulated the paint with `sticks, trowels or knives'

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Added sand, broken glass or other foreign matter to pain
Preferred to use common house paints

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These drips and splatters became known as “action painting
This all-over style of painting avoids any points of emphasis or identifiable parts within the whole canvas

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The design of his painting had no relation to the shape or size of the canvas
the canvas was sometimes docked or trimmed to suit the image.

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Pollock wanted an end to the viewer's search for representational elements in his paintings
he abandoned titles and started numbering the paintings instead

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"...look passively and try to receive what the painting has to offer and not bring a subject matter or preconceived idea of what they are to be looking for.”
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subject to much abuse and sarcasm as the leader of a still little comprehended style
In 1956 Time magazine called him `Jack the Dripper'.

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By the 1960s, however, he was generally recognized as the most important figure in the most important movement of this century in American painting

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His unhappy personal life (he was an alcoholic) and his premature death in a car crash contributed to his legendary status

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