From the August 8,1949 feature Art legend - JACKSON POLLOCK—Is he the greatest living painter in the United States? According to LIFE, “Recently a formidably tall-forehead New York critic hailed the brooding, and puzzled-looking man shown above as a major artist of our time and a fine candidate to become "the greatest American painter of the 20th Century. Others believe that Jackson Pollock produces nothing more than interesting,if inexplicable, decorations. Still others condemn his pictures as degenerate and find them as unpalatable as yesterday’s macaroni. Even so, or Pollock,at the age of 37, has burst forth as the shining new phenomenon of American art.“ (Martha Holmes—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #JacksonPollock #TBT
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