BiographyJackson Pollock was an American abstract expressionist painter who revolutionized modern art with his drip painting technique—pouring, dripping, and flinging paint onto canvases laid on the floor—creating dynamic, all-over compositions that embodied spontaneity and the unconscious. His radical approach made him a central figure of the New York School in the late 1940s and established the United States as the new center of the art world. His turbulent life and tragic death in a car accident at 44 have become as legendary as his art.
