Pollackesque

English

Etymology

From Pollack +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Pollackesque (comparative more Pollackesque, superlative most Pollackesque)

1. Resembling the paintings of Jackson Pollack.
   • 2005, Ronnie Burkett, Provenance‎, page 21:

     At the time of the police investigation, the only “artwork” found were pre-Pollackesque spatters of blood on the previously pristine white walls.

   • 2010, Jeff Morgan, Productive Trout Flies for Unorthodox Prey: Ecology & Imitation‎, page 33:

     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.

   • 2012, Mallory Kane, Death of a Beauty Queen‎, page 76:

     The man who had attacked her had used his knife like a mad Pollackesque painter.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pollackesque.