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pollock

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1. pollock - Noun

2. pollock - Verb

3. Pollock - Proper noun

Meaning

A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Pollock looks unusual and radical even now. Donald Judd

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. Lee Krasner

as 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

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys. Stella Vine

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. Donald Judd

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy. Agnes Martin

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