Jackson Pollock – 1912-1956

Paul Jackson Pollock —known as Jackson Pollock—made a radical break with accepted conventions of painting by developing “action” techniques, creating painting through free-associative gestures, typically using his brushes as sticks, from which the paint was dripped onto the canvas rather than applied with the bristles. Pollock’s action paintings impress the viewer as transcriptions of pure energy, and his work is considered some of the most important in 20th century art.