He took traditional painting off the easel, put it on a monumental scale and decided you could paint it on the floor, you could use any tool to paint with, you could thin the paint and pour it, and you could let it soak into the canvas rather than putting paint on top of a primed canvas. After World War II, the center of the art world shifted from Europe to America, and much of the creative energy settled in New York, Ambrose said. Pollack changed all that for all who followed, said Ambrose. The space becomes boundless. There's no window to another world, and thus there's no focal point.
Every point is equally important.
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