So if we think about Jackson Pollock as being kind of the abstract expressionist that many people think of,

Richter was visiting documenta zwei in Kassel in 1959. He was strongly impressed by the works of Jackson Pollock or Lucio Fontana. As if an epiphany, Richter realized the creative prohibitions towards abstraction were wrong, as was his very own way of thinking up to that point. Due to the political situation of the Cold War and Richter's realization, the West offers more when it comes to his artistic endeavors. Gerhard and Ema left the

I'm starting to think that the art of the deal is art in the way that Jackson Pollock is art.

Okay, in this case, showing all the lines from every run just gives us this Jackson Pollock painting.

Here's a test I give my graduate students, all talented and well-educated: "Please analyze this Jackson Pollock painting and explain why it is good." It is only after they give very eloquent answers that I inform them that the painting is actually a close-up of my studio apron.

This is a work by Jackson Pollock.

Gonna take some of this white chocolate, melt it, and then we can kind of go a little bit Jackson Pollock, just get it everywhere.

But for modern art lovers, there is no more hallowed a destination than the former home of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

Painters like André Masson applied this to the visual arts, letting ink run free across paper, creating fluid, dreamlike drawings prefiguring the work of Jackson Pollock.

That doesn't mean that it's any better or worse than a painting by, say, Jackson Pollock from the same year, only that, being realistic and dramatic, Christina's world more easily fits the shape of our memories, our dreams, our fears and cravings.