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MoMA, 2010 AB EX NY: The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock: One: Number 31, 1950, online video, 24 October 2010
This Youtube video was uploaded to Youtube by the Museum of Modern Art and is therefore a credible source and of high authority.

Pollock's work thus became as much about process as they were about product. They became a record of the performance of painting - his play in and around the canvas, where he could enter them as a participant and hover above them as their creator.

 
 

Whilst using this “drip” technique, Pollock was labelled by Time magazine as “Jack the Dripper”.

The “drip” period was when Pollock’s most famous paintings were created.  These were painted during the period 1947 and 1950.
 

Jackson Pollock, My Painting, 1956

“My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”

 

Gaylen94, G 2009, Jackson Pollock in studio, Photograph, Flickr

Although the person who posted this picture onto Flickr is not well known, the photo itself (although not stated by the person who uploaded it to Flickr) has originated from Hans Namuth who was a well-respected photographer in his time and the photograph is also copyrighted under Hans Namuth Ltd.

Jackson Pollock at work, 1950. Photograph ©Hans Namuth, 1989. Hans Namuth Ltd., New York