Jackson Pollock - "Jack the Dripper"

Jackson Pollack is a man who contributed to the world of art by creating an entirely new form of art, abstract expressionism. Abstract expressionism is creating art in a completely abstract manner, using the artist's mood to do the painting. Jackson Pollock did not always paint this way though. He started studying art at the Art Students' League in New York in 1929. He was interested in Mexican muralist painters such as Orozco, Riviera, and Siqueiros, and in different parts of surrealism. …