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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson 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.

BornJanuary 28, 1912NationalityAmerican

Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter is an American painter and photographer whose hyper-realistic, large-scale works explore beauty, glamour, and the body through lush, close-up imagery of glitter, lipstick, wet skin, and stilettos that simultaneously seduce and critique the beauty industry. She rose to renewed prominence in the 2000s after years working in commercial photography, and has become a prominent voice on reproductive rights and feminist politics. Her paintings are held in major museum collections worldwide, including MoMA and the Whitney.

Born1948NationalityAmerican

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