artistic oops

Worth repeating.

Jackson Pollock's artistic oops "blazed an astonishing trail for other Abstract Expressionist painters to follow".

De Kooning said, "He broke the ice'', an enigmatic phrase suggesting that Pollock showed what art could become with his 1947 drip paintings.

It has been suggested that Pollock was influenced by Native American sand paintings, made by trickling thin lines of colored sand onto a horizontal surface. It was not until 1947 that Pollock began his ``action'' paintings, influenced by Surrealist ideas of ``psychic automatism'' (direct expression of the unconscious). Pollock would fix his canvas to the floor and drip paint from a can using a variety of objects to manipulate the paint.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/

Does this remind us of anyone?

The intuetics of W. B. Yeats, perhaps?

"The rational thinking of scientists and scholars is continually opposed to the inspiration or intuition of the artist in Yeats’ poetry, as it was in almost all forms of romanticism."

Or the intuetics of Maria Aquilera?