What modern artist was nicknamed "Jack the Dripper"?

In a 1956 edition of Time Magazine, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was mockingly labeled “Jack the Dripper” for his unique style of painting pictures. Specifically, he used a paint dripping technique that became permanently identified with his art. By using the dripping procedure, he was able to reach a more instantaneous means of creating art. Literally, liquid paint would go directly onto a canvas. It was directly allowed to drip off the painting tool being used by Pollock.

During his day, Pollock was considered an Abstract Expressionism who revolutionized all contemporary art that followed him with his radical approach to painting. He is said to have redefined what it was to produce art. He realized that the process of creating a work of art was just as important as the work of art itself.

With the aftermath of World War II, American artists were seen as having trouble with the dark side of man. Anxiously aware of human irrationality and vulnerability, they sought to express their concerns by means of a new art form. They wanted art with significance and substance. Other artists (called Surrealists) dedicated themselves to expressing their art and imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention. Ultimately, this gave way to the method of psychic automatism. This allowed involuntary gesture and improvisation to take over, freeing the artist of his conscious mind. With drip painting, freedom is exactly what Pollock found.