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Jackson Pollock was a man who was almost as famous for his drunken, violent rages as he was for his Art. However, despite his human frailties, even the most ardent critics cannot deny the tremendous effect that Pollock had on the 20th century art world, and the extent of which he revolutionized the way we view modern art. Jackson Pollock adopted different styles of painting during his lifetime. In his earlier years, artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, whose painting style was entitled ‘American Realism’, and also Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera inspired his painting and style. However, Pollock was troubled by his inability to find his own signature style, and turned to the bottle to overcome his problems. Not long afterwards though, in the mid 1940’s, Pollock began to develop what became known as ‘abstract expressionism’. This revolutionary style was utterly different from anything that had come before it. Pollock garnered both support and ridicule for many of his ‘drip’ paintings. It was often stated that any child, chimpanzee or dog could make a painting just as good as one of Pollock’s drip paintings. However, it is easy to determine the difference between a ‘Pollock’ drip painting and any