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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- The celebrated painter Jackson Pollock created his most iconic works not with a brush, but by pouring paint onto the canvas from above, weaving sinuous filaments ...

Acrylic paint is an artistic medium with the biggest number of paradoxes. Why so? When one paints with acrylic, they commonly use the watercolor technique. However, once the paint dries, it inherits ...

Jackson Pollock “dripping”-style paintings might look easy to recreate at first glance, but there’s a skill to it. Chances are, if you try it, you might find it quite difficult to control where the ...

Forgeries of Jackson Pollock's iconic, splatter-like paintings are always dripping out into the art world. But a new scientific analysis of the American artist's works may let experts to confirm which ...

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.