Jackson Pollock was the personification of abstract expressionism. Pollock was also known as "Jack the Dripper" because of his style of "action paintings." He made many paintings that were so sizable that he had to fling paint onto the canvas while on the floor creating the part of the nickname "Dripper". He lived a life of crazy antics and behavior similar to present day celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. When he painted, he used his whole body in a very loose manner. Pollock felt that he did not need to think so much about art and that it should be free with artwork and that there does not need to be a special meaning for it.
Cy Twombly went back to the roots of Pollock's paintings. Twombly made very juvenile marks onto his canvas and treated it as if it were a wall and he was an amateur graffiti artist.
Bryce Martin began as a minimal painter. Later on he used some sticks and branches as his brushes and painted on giant canvases like Pollock and Twombly. His paintings had very loose strokes and the backgrounds were very plain or blank. Some strokes were different colors and others were a very grayish black color. Bill hates Bryce Martin. Bryce Martin spent a large portion of his career working in a single specific style of art which most artists do but all of a sudden Martin shifted his focus and started working soley in a different style of art.
The Painted Word
Tom Wolfe was a satirist about many things and his book The Painted Word was a satire about the art world. He made fun of hard edge, pop, op, and all the -isms.
Pop Art
Pop Art is known to have had a lot of social satire. Andy Warhol was one of the ringleaders of pop art. When people think of pop art the artist that immediately comes to mind is Andy Warhol
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