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Jackson Pollock

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Noun1.Jackson PollockJackson Pollock - United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)

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Art & Context: The '50s and 60s" focuses upon artistic creations by twenty of postwar America's most influential artists ranging from Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, and Roy Lichtenstein, to Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and "Andy Warhol.
By precisely the same logic, one could conclude that the talent of Jackson Pollock is that of a 6-year-old.
Martin confronts what it would mean, after Pop, "Pictures," and postmodernism, to return to painting and abstraction which, as he writes in an essay on Alfred Jensen, "blaze[s] with the light of a living investigation," a quest associated with what Martin calls the "heroic generation" of Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Myron Stout, and Forrest Bess.
 
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