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Abstract Expressionism
In 1947, Jackson Pollock shook out a canvas on the floor of his barn-turned-studio in Springs, New York. A rugged painter with a storied appetite for alcohol and barroom brawls, Pollock physically worked on and within the painting, stepping across it, flinging house paint, even snuffing out cigarettes on the unprimed, unstretched surface.