Jackson Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term Action Painting. In the process of production paintings in this way he moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the usual use of easel and brush, as he used his whole body to paint. Pollock came to be known as "Jack the Dripper" as a result of his painting style. The modify in style and technique probably came about as a outcome of many diverse influences. On the floor I am more at ease.

The mix of the uncontainable and the controllable. Flinging, dripping, pouring, spattering, he would energetically move around the canvas, just about as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see. Jackson Pollock wanted to feel part of the painting? I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. I have a partiality for sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a grave impasto with sand, broken glass or other

foreign matter? It was about the faction of his body, over which he had control, mixed with the viscous flow of paint.

Jackson Pollock violent method of dripping and smearing paint onto the canvas in dramatic, sweeping gestures is strikingly perceptible in his paintings. He would pour and fling the paint, using sticks and knives onto unstretched canvas which had been tacked to a hard wall or floor. As he painted, this enabled him to walk around it as well. Jackson Pollock innovative technique became known as action Painting? Such radical basics as the abandonment of easel painting and the
lack of traditional point of view make this work a central landmark in post-war international art.

Let's see some of his paintings!