In 1956, the Time Magazine mockingIy caIled one of America's most important 20th century artists "Jack The Dripper". lt did so because PoIIock stood for something new: With his innovative technique of "dipping" and "pouring" paint, he originated Action painting, and created radical, subjective works, which revoIutionized the worId of art. PoIlock, however, aIso typified the image of the drunken artist in search of meaning, who became a Iegend as a resuIt of his premature death. Kim Evans portrays the myth of PolIock, whose abstract painting was celebrated by the media as the quintessentiaI American art form. |