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Article: Jack the Dripper Returns.(painter Jackson Pollock)
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- Newsweek
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- December 28, 1998
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Art: The show of the year tried to separate the myth of Pollock as the tormented soul from the radical beauty of his paintings. And it gave him his place in the pantheon.
By the time jackson pollock came along, almost all the basic ways of putting paint on a picture had been discovered. The 19th-century impressionists had practically exhausted stippling. Brushy expressionism had been pre-empted by some Germans just before World War I. Kasimir Malevich trotted out a blank-looking, white-on-white canvas in Russia in 1918. The territory of neat, flat colored rectangles was claimed by Mondrian in the 1920s. And since the early '30s, Salvador Dali had enjoyed a ...