"including Greene. He had already been strongly influenced by reproductions he had seen of works by Jackson Pollock and made a conscious decision to be a non-figurative painter. From then on he followed Pollock's example and worked on the floor, treating the paintings as his ""arena"" and using ever larger sheets of hardboard instead of canvas. Since late 1955 he had gradually eliminated colour from his paintings, and in spring 1956 he decided to only make black bitumen paintings, with their monochrome surfaces subjected to increasingly more brutal gestures and mark-making, including attack by fire. In 1957 Green was approached"
"Jack the Zipper Jack the Zipper (born in New York, United States) is an American pornographic film director and owner of Clockwork Pictures and Cobra Films. He was a tattoo artist prior to taking on the porn industry. He has won the AVN Award three times for Best Director and Best Film: in 2004 for ""StuntGirl"" in 2005 for ""Squealer"" and in 2006 for ""Blacklight Beauty"". Following the success of ""StuntGirl"", he signed an exclusive production contract with Hustler Video. He names Salvador Dalí, Andrew Blake and Stanley Kubrick as his influences. He also claims to be a fine artist,"
"photographer and musician. Jack the Zipper Jack the Zipper (born in New York, United States) is an American pornographic film director and owner of Clockwork Pictures and Cobra Films. He was a tattoo artist prior to taking on the porn industry. He has won the AVN Award three times for Best Director and Best Film: in 2004 for ""StuntGirl"" in 2005 for ""Squealer"" and in 2006 for ""Blacklight Beauty"". Following the success of ""StuntGirl"", he signed an exclusive production contract with Hustler Video. He names Salvador Dalí, Andrew Blake and Stanley Kubrick as his influences. He also claims to be"
"Jay Scott Pike Jay Scott Pike (September 6, 1924 – September 13, 2015) was an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator known for his 1950s and 1960s work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, advertising art, and as a good girl artist. He created the DC character Dolphin and co-created the Marvel character Jann of the Jungle. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1924, Jay Scott Pike enrolled at the Art Students League in Manhattan, New York City at what he said was age 15 or 16: ""I know I was partway into high school. I wasn't a"
"operations until his own violent death in October 1927, possibly by Buchalter and Shapiro. Nathan Kaplan ""Kid Dropper"" Nathan Caplin or Kaplan (August 3, 1891 – August 28, 1923), also known as Jack the Dropper, was an American gangster controlling labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during the post-World War I period into the early years of Prohibition in the early 1920s. One of seven children, Kaplan was born in New York's Lower East Side on August 3, 1891. Kaplan began committing petty theft at an early age and later becoming a skilled sneak thief and pushcart extortionist,"
"such as Bob Hope and John F. Kennedy. Sarnoff usually signed art using his full name, or ""Sarnoff"", or just ""AS."" His best known work is a painting of dogs playing pool entitled """"Jack the Ripper"""" Arthur Sarnoff Arthur Sarnoff (born 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, died 2000 in Boca Raton, Florida) was an American artist. Prior to working as an illustrator, Sarnoff studied at the Industrial School and the Grand Central School of Art in New York City. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and exhibited widely including the National Academy of Design. Sarnoff was a"
"Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation. Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an"
"Jack Wemp Jack Richard Wemp (November 29, 1925 – November 13, 2005) was an American artist whose painting styles spanned the Depression era, expressionism, 60’s contemporary art styles, and, for the last 30 years of his life, a realist style reminiscent of the Hudson River school. Born in Seattle, Washington in 1925. At the beginning of the Great Depression, his father moved the family to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Encouraged by his artistically talented parents, Jack began to draw and paint at an early age and art was always his favorite school subject. In high school, he had the benefit"
"Harry Jackson (artist) Harry Andrew Jackson (April 18, 1924 – April 25, 2011), born Harry Aaron Shapiro Jr., was an American artist. He began his career as a Marine combat artist, then later worked in the abstract expressionist, realist, and American western styles. Harry Aaron Shapiro Jr. was born to Harry Shapiro and Ellen Jackson in Chicago on April 18, 1924. His name was changed to Harry Andrew Jackson after his parents divorced. As a child, Jackson sometimes skipped classes and wandered the streets of Chicago. He worked in his mother's lunchroom in the Union Stock Yards. Jackson liked the"
"by Frank Orsatti in the film. William Jackson (gangster) William Jackson, also known as Action Jackson (December 13, 1920 – August 11, 1961) was an enforcer and loan collector for the Chicago Outfit. He earned his nickname of ""Action"" because it was slang for ""Juice Man"", which meant debt-collector. He was tortured to death by his fellow gangsters, allegedly on suspicion that he had become an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Chicago police described him as a man with the body of a giant and the brain of a child, who was known in syndicate circles as"
"heroes. Contemporary artists who have used drip painting include Lynda Benglis, Norman Bluhm, Dan Christensen, Ian Davenport, Ronald Davis, Rodney Graham, John Hoyland, Ronnie Landfield, Zane Lewis, Joan Mitchell, Roxy Paine, Larry Poons, Pat Steir, Andre Thomkins, and Zevs. Drip painting Drip painting is a form of abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured on to the canvas. This style of action painting was experimented with in the first half of the twentieth century by such artists as Francis Picabia, André Masson and Max Ernst, who employed drip painting in his works ""The Bewildered Planet"", and ""Young Man"
"Steamboat, the stallion from Bucking Horse and Rider seen on Wyoming's vehicle registration plates, to celebrate the United States Bicentennial. Reagan kept eight bronzes in the White House. Harry Jackson (artist) Harry Andrew Jackson (April 18, 1924 – April 25, 2011), born Harry Aaron Shapiro Jr., was an American artist. He began his career as a Marine combat artist, then later worked in the abstract expressionist, realist, and American western styles. Harry Aaron Shapiro Jr. was born to Harry Shapiro and Ellen Jackson in Chicago on April 18, 1924. His name was changed to Harry Andrew Jackson after his parents"
"Nathan Kaplan ""Kid Dropper"" Nathan Caplin or Kaplan (August 3, 1891 – August 28, 1923), also known as Jack the Dropper, was an American gangster controlling labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during the post-World War I period into the early years of Prohibition in the early 1920s. One of seven children, Kaplan was born in New York's Lower East Side on August 3, 1891. Kaplan began committing petty theft at an early age and later becoming a skilled sneak thief and pushcart extortionist, later becoming known for his skill with the ""drop swindle"". He was originally a"
"Dick Ayers Richard Bache ""Dick"" Ayers (; April 28, 1924 – May 4, 2014) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' ""The Fantastic Four"". He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic ""Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos"", drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw"
"William Jackson (gangster) William Jackson, also known as Action Jackson (December 13, 1920 – August 11, 1961) was an enforcer and loan collector for the Chicago Outfit. He earned his nickname of ""Action"" because it was slang for ""Juice Man"", which meant debt-collector. He was tortured to death by his fellow gangsters, allegedly on suspicion that he had become an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Chicago police described him as a man with the body of a giant and the brain of a child, who was known in syndicate circles as a mob ""juice"" collector who specialized"
"was expressed on the large canvases. In 1956, ""Time"" magazine dubbed Pollock ""Jack the Dripper"", due to his painting style. Pollock observed American Indian sandpainting demonstrations in the 1940s. Referring to his style of painting on the floor, Pollock stated, ""I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. This is akin to the methods of the Indian sand painters of the West."" Other influences on his drip technique include the Mexican muralists and Surrealist automatism. Pollock denied reliance on ""the"
"Skip Williamson Mervyn ""Skip"" Williamson (August 19, 1944 – March 16, 2017) was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Williamson's art was published in the ""National Lampoon"", ""High Times"", ""the Realist"", ""the Industrial Worker"", the ""Chicago Seed"", ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" and others. His best-known character is ""Snappy Sammy Smoot"". Williamson was born in San Antonio, Texas, but later moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, and then to Canton, Missouri. Williamson's real first name is Mervyn; however when he was a child, he was a bit of a troublemaker, so his grandmother gave him the nickname ""Skip"" after"
"and Neville. He died in 1968 at the age of 71. Edgar Henry Banger Edgar Henry Banger (27 February 1897 – 1968) or as he was known as Harry Banger was well known for his amazing cartoon illustrations from 1926 and most proficient through the 1930s in which his colourful characters were included in comics such as ""Rattler"", ""Dazzler"", ""Rocket"" and ""Bouncer"". Banger's most famous was Koko the Pup for DC Thompson's ""Magic"", and also Dully duckling which appeared in Sunny Stories through late 40s and into the 50s. His artwork was also well recognised through Norfolk, being a regular"
"technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions. One definitive influence on Pollock was the work of the Ukrainian American artist Janet Sobel (1894–1968) (born Jennie Lechovsky). Peggy Guggenheim included Sobel's work in"
"pieces earned him the spot in the 1950s as the unchallenged leader of kinetic painters, his work was associated with Action painting coined by art critic Harold Rosenberg in the 1950s. Pollock had an unfettered desire to animate every aspect of his paintings. Pollock repeatedly said to himself, ""I am in every painting"". He used tools that most painters would never use, such as sticks, trowels, and knives. The shapes he created were what he thought was """"beautiful, erratic objects"""". This style evolved into his drip technique. Pollock repeatedly took buckets of paint and paintbrushes and flicked them around until"
"Edgar Henry Banger Edgar Henry Banger (27 February 1897 – 1968) or as he was known as Harry Banger was well known for his amazing cartoon illustrations from 1926 and most proficient through the 1930s in which his colourful characters were included in comics such as ""Rattler"", ""Dazzler"", ""Rocket"" and ""Bouncer"". Banger's most famous was Koko the Pup for DC Thompson's ""Magic"", and also Dully duckling which appeared in Sunny Stories through late 40s and into the 50s. His artwork was also well recognised through Norfolk, being a regular cartoonist for the local papers such as ""The Eastern Daily Press"","
"Jack Dawn Jack Dawn (February 10, 1892 - June 20, 1961) was an American make-up artist whose career spanned thirty-seven years. He worked on more than two hundred films, many of them regarded as classics by historians and moviegoers alike. As a boy living on a Kentucky farm, Dawn chopped faces in sandstone he found on the banks of a nearby creek, using a chisel, a hammer, and a spoon. He eventually gravitated to Hollywood, where he found work as an extra, portraying an Indian brave for $3 a day. He served with the British during World War I, then"
"Jock (cartoonist) Mark Simpson, known by the pen name Jock, is a British cartoonist, best known for his work in ""2000 AD"", ""The Losers"", and more recently ""Batman"" and ""Wolverine"". Jock began his professional career at British comics magazine ""2000 AD"", on series including ""Judge Dredd"" and ""Lenny Zero"", the latter with writer Andy Diggle. It was with Diggle that he got his big break in the American comic book market at DC Comics and their Vertigo imprint, working on ""The Losers"" and """". Also at Vertigo and with Mike Carey, another former ""2000 AD"" writer, Jock worked on an"
"Action painting Action painting, sometimes called ""gestural abstraction"", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist. The style was widespread from the 1940s until the early 1960s, and is closely associated with abstract expressionism (some critics have used the terms ""action painting"" and ""abstract expressionism"" interchangeably). A comparison is often drawn between the American action painting and the French tachisme. The New"
"is the founder of the """" movement (in Spanish). Manuel Chabrera Manuel Chabrera. Spanish architect and artist, born in Tarragona in 1952 and raised in Andalucia; Chabrera, like Pollock, manages to make the very gesture of painting the subject matter of the piece. As Sandra Miller, British art historian, said, “The subject matter of his compositions is the result of the violence of the physical act to which Chabrera commits himself; and although watching him paint may shock his observers, the results are compositions of great beauty.” Action painting was the name originally coined by Harold Rosemberg to describe the"
"Jack Hooper (artist) Jack Hooper (Jack Meredith Hooper or Jack M. Hooper) (August 26, 1928 - January 24, 2014) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, printmaker and art educator. Hooper was a major figure on the Southern California art scene, belonging to that generation of Los Angeles painters who matured during the late 1950s and the 1960s, painters such as John Altoon, Sam Amato, Robert Irwin, Lee Mullican, William Brice and Billy Al Bengston. He was an innovator in the use of new materials, most importantly plastic in art. He is known for abstract expressionist, mural and figurative painting. Hooper"
"Jack Hooper (artist) Jack Hooper (Jack Meredith Hooper or Jack M. Hooper) (August 26, 1928 - January 24, 2014) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, printmaker and art educator. Hooper was a major figure on the Southern California art scene, belonging to that generation of Los Angeles painters who matured during the late 1950s and the 1960s, painters such as John Altoon, Sam Amato, Robert Irwin, Lee Mullican, William Brice and Billy Al Bengston. He was an innovator in the use of new materials, most importantly plastic in art. He is known for abstract expressionist, mural and figurative painting. Hooper"
"US Army Veteran The Patriot Paul Severe aka Jared Keefe. In 2016 the winner was Rescue 911 Christopher Annino. Baker died on October 20, 2014 in Hartford, Connecticut, due to complications from a heart attack. Ox Baker Douglas A. Baker Sr. (April 19, 1934 – October 20, 2014) was an American professional wrestler and actor, better known professionally as Ox Baker. He was famous for his Machiavellian eyebrows and finishing move, the Heart Punch, sometimes called the ""Hurt Punch"", after Baker's famous catchphrase ""I love to hurt people!"". He appeared in several movies including ""Blood Circus"" and ""Escape from New"
"the works they made for the WPA in the 1930s), and the strong and unusual use of brushstrokes and experimental paint application with a new understanding of process. The emphasis and intensification of color and large open expanses of surface were two of the principles applied to the movement called Color Field painting. Ad Reinhardt, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman were categorized as such. Another movement was called Action Painting, characterized by spontaneous reaction, powerful brushstrokes, dripped and splashed paint and the strong physical movements used in the production of a painting. Jackson Pollock is an"
"Important exponents of this concept of art making were the painters Joan Miró and André Masson. However the action painters took everything the surrealists had done a step further. Action painting Action painting, sometimes called ""gestural abstraction"", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist. The style was widespread from the 1940s until the early 1960s, and is closely associated with abstract"
"Raymond Jackson (""JAK"") Raymond Jackson, best known by his pen-name JAK (11 March 1927 in Marylebone – 27 July 1997 in Wimbledon) was one of Britain's best-known newspaper cartoonists, working for the London Evening Standard from 1952 onwards. JAK was born Raymond Allen Jackson on 11 March 1927 in Marylebone, London. He trained as a commercial artist at Willesden School of Art after a period in the Army Education Corps where he taught painting ""in the style of Jackson Pollock"". After working for an advertising agency and various magazines including Punch and Lilliput he joined the ""Evening Standard"" in 1952."
"Elmer Wexler Elmer Wexler (August 14, 1918 - October 3, 2007) was an illustrator and cartoonist. He is most famous for his work on comic strips and comic books in the 1940s, including being the inventor of the DC comic hero ""Miss America"" in 1941. He is credited with being the first artist to draw a soap-opera style comic strip, ""Vic Jordan"", from 1941. Later he made his living from illustration, including books, magazines and record covers. He has also been credited as a co-creator of the obscure comic book character ""The Fighting Yank"". He is the illustrator on a"
"Jim Aparo James N. Aparo (August 24, 1932 – July 19, 2005) was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960s and 1970s DC Comics work, including on the characters Batman, Aquaman and the Spectre. Aparo was raised in New Britain, Connecticut, and was self-trained as an artist. He attempted to enter the comic book profession in his early 20s, approaching EC Comics, which declined to hire him. He then worked in the advertising industry in Connecticut, often drawing fashion illustrations for newspaper advertisements. He continued to pursue a career in comic books and comic strips while working"