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[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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.
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