Jackson Pollock Self-Portrait A.I. #038 NFT

American painter Jackson Pollock is remembered for his abstract-expressionist art and 'drip technique.' But researchers who studied his work wanted to take a deeper look at the science behind his art. The famous 'drip paintings' that he began to produce in the late 1940s represent one of the most original bodies of work of the century. At times they could suggest the life-force in nature itself, at others they could evoke man's entrapment - in the body, in the anxious mind, and in the newly frightening modern world. Pollock's interest in ceramics was inspired by the work of his teacher, Thomas Hart Benton, who had discovered during his impoverished years in New York that it was easier to sell decorated ceramics than paintings. Pollock's surviving ceramics seem to have been made at two times.