Pollock's Drippy Painting
1951 AD
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ART

NEW YORK, NEW YORK
        In the 1950s Jackson Pollock created a stir in the art world by pioneering a radically new method of painting. Instead of touching the brush to the canvas, he placed the canvas on the floor, stood over it and dripped paint onto it, often making sweeping, circular patterns.  And these "drippings" were not small -- they were wall sized.
        Pollock said, "I don't work from drawings or sketches. My painting is direct. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them." By putting the canvas on the floor, he said, he could also see the painting from all angles, even from inside it.
	Of course, not everybody appreciated Pollock's drip technique. Time magazine, for example, called him "Jack the Dripper."
        This painting is "Echo, Number 25." It is more than 23 feet long and is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
	Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, studied art in New York, and died in an automobile crash there in 1956.