03:57 GMT // 28 January 2012
IS THE DAY JACKSON POLLOCK WOULD HAVE TURNED 100
So today we are drinking a Jack Collins
The father of Abstract Expressionism, an American icon, and unkindly known to some as "Jack the Dripper", Jackson Pollock would have turned 100 today. But he has been dead for over fifty years. Pollock's vast canvases, layered in dripped, smeared, heavy paint - he even rode a bicycle across one - transformed the art of his time. And today a Pollock canvas, 1948, is the most expensive painting ever sold, raising a cool $140 million. Not bad for Jack the Dripper...
Despite the outwards serenity of his cabin in the Hamptons, a district which he helped to make fashionable, Pollock grappled with alcoholism, depression and nervous breakdowns, and his marriage was unhappy. He would die after crashing his Oldsmobile in a drunken rage.
Despite his dark ending, we are more than partial to Pollock's dark works - and the Hamptons, too - so we are toasting him with a Jack Collins.
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