Pollock, Jackson

1. A twentieth-century American painter, famous for creating abstract paintings by dripping or pouring paint on a canvas in complex swirls and spatters.

Example Sentences

Sharing Fire With Pollock Jackson Pollock is best known for the paintings he made from 1947 to 1951 in which he poured and dripped enamel paint onto large, unprimed canvases tacked to the floor of his studio, which at that time happened to be in Springs, N.Y., a hamlet in the town of East Hampton.

From New York Times