JACKSON POLLOCK

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• JACKSON POLLOCK (noun)
  The noun JACKSON POLLOCK has 1 sense:

1. United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)

  Familiarity information: JACKSON POLLOCK used as a noun is very rare.

• JACKSON POLLOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jackson Pollock; Pollock

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

 Context examples 

"If you look at a painting by Jackson Pollock, you see a lot of different colors," Lambart says.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

Networks of channels then converge toward the mid-ocean ridge but don't mix — like the streaks of paint on a Jackson Pollock painting.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)