This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. When Janet Sobel created one of the most recognizable artistic styles, drip painting, on scraps of paper, boxes and the backs of envelopes, she was 45 years old, had never taken a single art class and didn’t even have her own supplies. Rather than use a brush, she threw paint onto a surface or used objects like glass pipettes to control the pigment as it fell. Sometimes she used a vacuum cleaner to move the paint around. Though art historians say her spontaneous manner of painting is characteristic of Abstract Expressionism, it is another artist known for drip painting who gained fame as a founder of the movement: Jackson Pollock.

Source: New York Times July 30, 2021 17:03 UTC