Abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings may not be entirely abstract. According to new research from UC San ...

Did Jackson Pollock become an artist because he was copycatting his older brother? Believe it or not, the pugnacious Abstract Expressionist was the baby brother in his family—the youngest of ...

Few modern artists have been more acclaimed than Jackson Pollock, who died sixty years ago this coming August. One period of his career has tended to be overlooked ... an omission Rita Braver is ...

Jackson Pollock’s “Mural,” an eight-by-twenty-foot painting that the artist completed in 1943, has been on a continuous world tour since 2014. It’s travelled a lot of miles. Legally ...

When most people think of the artist Jackson Pollock, what comes to mind are his gestural, abstract drip paintings, which are almost synonymous with the male-dominated postwar New York art scene.

About 75 years ago, Jackson Pollock revolutionized the art world with his distinctive style of painting. He would lay the canvas on the floor and with his arms outstretched, pour or drip cans of ...

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) is an American icon. Creator of rhythmic and energetic "action painting," he is internationally hailed as a leading figure in Abstract Expressionism. Born in Wyoming and ...

Harvard scientists have taken a page from the innovative methods of abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock—aka the "splatter master"—to exploit the underlying physics rather than try to ...