Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Abstract Expressionism holds the distinction of being the first original ...

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was the founder of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in art. This was the first truly American artform and its development had worldwide repercussions. Whereas up to the ...

A new scientific study is challenging long-held beliefs about Jackson Pollock and his iconic “drip paintings,” suggesting that the Abstract Expressionist may have embedded hidden images, or what ...

Abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings may not be entirely abstract. According to new research from UC San ...

Did Jackson Pollock become an artist because he was copycatting his older brother? Believe it or not, the pugnacious Abstract Expressionist was the baby brother in his family—the youngest of five sons ...

The abstract expressionism pioneered by Jackson Pollock may look random, but they actually reveal a surprisingly deep knowledge of fluid dynamics and the relationship between gravity and viscosity.

One day in 1938, when abstract expressionism was a skinny creature starving in cold-water flats, a New York gallery invited three promising American artists to fill out a show of Picasso, Matisse and ...

Few art experts or enthusiasts would doubt that Jackson Pollock was a giant in 20th century art and Abstract Expressionism. In fact, he’s considered one of the most influential painters in American ...

The temperature changes hour to hour and day to day; exchange rates behave no differently. Wherever studies of the variability of similar one-dimensional time series are concerned, analyses based on ...

"[Jackson] Pollock would often begin with some sort of figurative device to which he would then respond—and eventually bury under layers of paint," says Sue Taylor, an art historian at Portland State ...