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a man flinging paint like accusations, and somehow building a religion out of mess.
means A type of edible saltwater fish in the cod family, found in the North Atlantic and often used in fish products like fish sticks and processed fillets.
from A word of Scots and northern English origin, recorded by the 17th century, spelled variously as pollock, pollack, or podlock. Its deeper roots are murky — possibly tied to Scots Gaelic, though no one can say for certain. The surname Pollock, borne by the painter Jackson Pollock, comes separately from a place name in Scotland and is etymologically unrelated to the fish, despite the splattered coincidence the essence enjoys.
- signature move
- dripped and flung paint onto canvas on the floor
- fractal proof
- physicists found mathematical fractals hidden in his chaos
- the title
- often used numbers, not words, to avoid suggestion
- sudden end
- died at 44 in a drunk-driving crash
- record price
- one painting reportedly sold for over 200 million dollars
jackson pollock — american abstract expressionist painter (1912-1956) famous for drip painting technique
walleye pollock — north atlantic fish species, second most commercially important fish after cod