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From the 1940s the painter Jackson Pollock, born on January
28th, 1912 in Wyoming, used a technique
generally described by terms like "action-painting" or
"drip-painting". Here action means that the picture becomes a
documentation of a dynamic act, where the action itself is at
the centre of interest. In 1946-47 Pollock began creating his large format "overall- paintings" in which he brought the colour on canvas through spontaneous dripping. With the help of cans, that were full of holes out of which the colour ran out, he created maze-like tangled colour-web structures. These paintings turned him into the most important "action-painter" and exponent of Abstract Expressionism. In the last paintings before his death in August 1956 it East Hampton (New York) in a car accident, Jackson Pollock concentrated on black and white structures, that reflected his return to the figurative. |