history of art

Jackson Pollock, Pollock’s mother and Lee Krasner, 1950

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“Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.” - Willem de Kooning

Jackson Pollock, d. Aug. 11, 1956