AMERICAN PAINTER AND A MAJOR FIGURE IN THE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST MOVEMENT. 1956, HE WAS GIVEN A MEMORIAL RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA) IN NEW YORK CITY. HE BEGAN PAINTING WITH HIS CANVASES LAID OUT ON THE STUDIO FLOOR, AND HE DEVELOPED WHAT WAS LATER CALLED HIS "DRIP" TECHNIQUE. THEREFORE, POLLOCK TURNED TO SYNTHETIC RESIN-BASED PAINTS CALLED ALKYD ENAMELS, WHICH, AT THAT TIME, WAS A NOVEL MEDIUM. POLLOCK DESCRIBED THIS USE OF HOUSEHOLD PAINTS, INSTEAD OF ARTIST’S PAINTS, AS "A NATURAL GROWTH OUT OF A NEED". POLLOCK'S TECHNIQUE OF POURING AND DRIPPING PAINT IS THOUGHT TO BE ONE OF THE ORIGINS OF THE TERM ACTION PAINTING.
AMERICAN PAINTER AND A MAJOR FIGURE IN THE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST MOVEMENT. 1956, HE WAS GIVEN A MEMORIAL RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA) IN NEW YORK CITY. HE BEGAN PAINTING WITH HIS CANVASES LAID OUT ON THE STUDIO FLOOR, AND HE DEVELOPED WHAT WAS LATER CALLED HIS "DRIP" TECHNIQUE. THEREFORE, POLLOCK TURNED TO SYNTHETIC RESIN-BASED PAINTS CALLED ALKYD ENAMELS, WHICH, AT THAT TIME, WAS A NOVEL MEDIUM. POLLOCK DESCRIBED THIS USE OF HOUSEHOLD PAINTS, INSTEAD OF ARTIST’S PAINTS, AS "A NATURAL GROWTH OUT OF A NEED". POLLOCK'S TECHNIQUE OF POURING AND DRIPPING PAINT IS THOUGHT TO BE ONE OF THE ORIGINS OF THE TERM ACTION PAINTING.
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