Pollock
Drip painting pioneer
Pollock is a surname, most famously associated with Jackson Pollock, the American abstract expressionist painter known for his drip technique—laying canvases on the floor and pouring or flicking paint onto them.
His name has become shorthand for a certain style of chaotic, splattered abstraction: The walls looked like a Pollock painting. (Lowercase pollock is a fish.)
Nonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
- action paintingSpontaneous, physical mark-making
- splatterScatter in drops
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- gesturalRelating to body movements
spontaneity · Springs · Long Island · MoMA · brushwork · enamel paint · alcoholism · influential
abstract expressionism
Nonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
- action paintingSpontaneous, physical mark-making
- splatterScatter in drops
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
gestural · spontaneity · Springs · Long Island · MoMA · brushwork · enamel paint · alcoholism · influential · nonrepresentational
surname
Hereditary family identifier
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- American ArtAmerican art, Hudson River School, American Renaissance, Ashcan School, Abstract Expressionism
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
- Modern Artcubism, Cubism, Fauvism, dadaism, Dadaism
- abstract artabstract art, abstract expressionism, abstraction, expressionism, abstract composition
PollockNorman Rockwell
Johannes Vermeer · photorealist · Vermeer · realist · Rembrandt
PollockMondrian
Dutch abstract grid artist
minimalism · hard-edge painting · Op Art · Bauhaus · conceptualism