Earlier in the year, the same five and six year olds learned that a cockroach had crawled onto Jackson Pollock's painting, "Lavender Mist," said Korb. Pollock decided to let the bug, ...

DALLAS — In 1950 Jackson Pollock was the most famous artist in America, if not in the world. That's an easy thing to write; what it elides is the difficult fact that the quality of his fame was ...

An artist who abandoned all conventions, Pollock used the separation and marbling of the wet paint enamel to create the dripping patterns in Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist). (National Gallery of ...