In 1950, Hans Namuth, a young photographer, wanted to take pictures—both stills and moving—of Pollock at work.

A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his " drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles.And in Paris where she became associated with Surrealists such as André Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Lee Miller, and Paul and Nusch Éluard, while simultaneously undertaking painting lessons with Cubist František Foltýn and famously refusing to become Pablo Picasso's muse—instead taking him for her muse in a feminist role reversal that inspired a number of her most fêted works. The Turner Prize – the world’s leading prize for contemporary art – began in 1984 when we as a company were just two years old. In Mexico City, he [Motherwell] visited Wolfgang Paalen whose show Baziotes and Jackson [Pollock] had seen at the Julien Levy Gallery the year before. Michael Winter (February 9, 2011), "Iowa lawmaker proposes selling Pollock masterpiece to fund scholarships", USA Today. He later used paint pouring as one of several techniques on canvases of the early 1940s, such as Male and Female and Composition with Pouring I.

I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. In 2004, One: Number 31, 1950 was ranked the eighth-most influential piece of modern art in a poll of 500 artists, curators, critics, and dealers. He considered Pollock's work to be the best painting of its day and the culmination of the Western tradition via Cubism and Cézanne to Manet.In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock", the modest-sized painting (15 by 28 1/2 in) was found to contain yellow paint pigments not commercially available until about 1970.

William Cook, "Jackson Pollock's forgotten bleak masterpieces: The 30-year wait for 'black pourings' exhibition", BBC — Arts, June 30, 2015. L. Shamar, "What Makes a Pollock Pollock: A Machine Vision Approach", International Journal of Arts and Technology, vol. Pollock's staining into raw canvas was adapted by the Color Field painters Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis. Taylor et al, "Authenticating Pollock Paintings Using Fractal Geometry", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian; they were of Irish and Scots-Irish descent, respectively.