He has broken the ice.

 

He has broken the ice.
--
Willem de Kooning's comment on Pollock’s drip paintings, shown for the very first time at Betty Parsons Gallery, in New York in 1948, as quoted in Abstract Expressionism (1990) by David Anfam, p. 130

 

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