Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock (/ˈpɒlək/; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and action painting, since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we’re living in... All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims—the Chinese, the renaissance, all cultures... The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within... It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age … … the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio … … in the old forms of the renaissance or of any other past culture.