Abstract art took centre stage and provided novel experience for the viewer. Leading exponent of the movement was Jackson Pollock who used a stick and dripped paint onto the canvas or sometimes splattered it directly from a can to create seemingly random patterns. People found it difficult to understand his works and hence the nick name “Jack the Dripper”. His most important work remains Blue Poles (1952). Other exponents of abstract art were Lee Kransner, wife of Pollock who created Cool White (1959), Robert Rauschenberg who created “Combines” using everyday objects, Jasper Johns who used everyday symbols in his famous work Flag (1955), and his expensive painting False Start (1959). Alexander Calder became famous for his hanging sculptures
