1. Jackson Pollock - Noun
2. Jackson Pollock - Verb
United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
Source: WordNetas quoted in Jackson Pollock, Ellen G Landau, p. 259, as quoted in Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Ines Janet Engelmann, Prestel Verlag Munich, 2007, p. 66. Hans Hofmann
It [the drip-paintings of Jackson Pollock ] was original, and it was beautiful, and it was new, and it was saying the most that could be said in painting up to that point - and it really drew me in. I was in awe of it, and I wanted to get at why. Helen Frankenthaler
...the huge Jackson Pollock canvas that is the U. S. A.: vast, murky, splotched and slapped together by a drunk. Sarah Vowell
He [ Jackson Pollock ] just jumps in before he knows how to swim. [when Morandi sees paintings of Pollock for the first time]. Giorgio Morandi
I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint. Bill Viola
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted. Jerry Saltz