Because
if you read
you will be told
By means of his interlaced trickles and spatters, Pollock created an oscillation between an emphatic surface — further specified by highlights of aluminum paint — and an illusion of indeterminate but somehow definitely shallow depths...
but
they are
still
just drops of paint,
and it's all about admiring the drops
like I learned to admire them
painting houses in the summertime,
looking down at the drop cloths, seeing
the blue from that big Colonial in June,
the red from the Cape Cod that needed so much scraping,
a splotch of green when I dropped my brush,
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Quote from Clement Greenberg, "American-type Painting." Art and Culture: Critical Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 1961. pg. 218.
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