Have you ever looked at a Jackson Pollock painting and thought “I could do this”? According to researchers at the University of Oregon, you might be wrong about that – unless you happen to be a child.

Jackson Pollock had bad balance. This is not the opinion of a snarky viewer sniping at a drip painting, but the assessment of Francis O’Connor, the great Pollock scholar. After a difficult birth ...

‘A child could have done that’ is modern art’s most banal criticism, but in the case of Jackson Pollock, the cynics are actually right. The US artist of the abstract expressionist movement was the ...

For decades, museum-goers have rolled their eyes at abstract works and muttered the familiar line, “A kid could have done that.” When it comes to Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings, a new ...