In 1947, when American iconoclast Jackson Pollock (1921 – 1956) put aside his brush to paint with unconventional objects, the art world would never be the same. Pollock ’ s abstractionism lighted the pathway to movements as varied as Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dadaism, Pop Art, Optical Art, Neo-Realism, Surrealism, and even Neo-Expressionism and Postmodernism, all of which emerged in his wake within a short span of years.
美國畫家傑克遜・帕洛克於 1947 年創始「不用畫筆作畫」技法後，世界美術產生劇變，繼抽象表現主義之後，新達達、普普藝術、歐普藝術、新寫實主義、超現實主義，以至新表現主義、後現代藝術……，短短數年間，各種繪畫表現方式紛紛出籠。