The description came later as he wrung his hands and shouted “ta da, art!”.

So you’re telling us that the canvases he used on the floor to catch drips are art? So basically I could shit on a drawing pad and call it art then. For the record I’m not one of this anti abstract art guys but in Pollack’s case he was the hackiest hack to ever hack with a paintbrush and paint.

Except that’s incorrect. Pollack discovered splatter painting by using spare canvases on the floor to catch paint dripping off of the canvas he was working on on the easel. He was fascinated by the random color splatter and drip patterns and decided to go full hack and just start doing that. Kinda like how you have an…