Pollackesque

Resembling the paintings of Jackson Pollack.

Adjective

  1. Resembling the paintings of Jackson Pollack.
    • At the time of the police investigation, the only “artwork” found were pre-Pollackesque spatters of blood on the previously pristine white walls. - 2005, Ronnie Burkett, Provenance, page 21:
    • When you finally find the “hot” baitfish pattern, all too often, a large fish will chew it to a Pollackesque mosaic of marabou, tinsel, and Flashabou. - 2010, Jeff Morgan, Productive Trout Flies for Unorthodox Prey:...
    • The man who had attacked her had used his knife like a mad Pollackesque painter. - 2012, Mallory Kane, Death of a Beauty Queen, page 76:

Origin

From Pollack + -esque.

Forms

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