#12: No. 5, 1948 – Jackson Pollock (1948)
Jackson Pollock laid his canvas flat on the floor and let the paint fall where instinct guided it. In No. 5, 1948, the lines tangled and collided, alive with the tension of a mind trying to outthink itself. His art was control by surrender.
Pollock turned motion into feeling, one flick at a time.