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Question: Is Jackson Pollack’s work considered art? Jackson Pollack (1912-1956) was one of the most famous American painters and one of the leading painters in the Abstract Expressionist movement (post World War II). Rather than painting concrete things like trees, people and mountains, he painted ideas like war, seasons, emotions and other abstract ideas. Pollack was also unique in his style of painting. Instead of painting in the traditional style with a canvas on an easel and sitting at a chair, Pollack painted with the canvas on the floor. He would walk around the canvas while pouring and dripping paint out of a bucket onto the canvas; Pollack “painted” with sticks, trowels, or knives instead of brushes. His style of painting became known as "Action" painting. Moreover, Pollack’s “all-over style of painting”, avoids any points of emphasis or identifiable parts within the whole canvas and therefore abandons the traditional idea of composition in terms of relations among parts. The design of his painting has no relation to the shape or size of the canvas – indeed the finished work, the canvas, was sometimes docked or trimmed to suit the image. In light this unorthodox approach to painting, Pollack encountered much criticism.
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