      Left: Jackson Pollock, Untitled (detail),1933-1938, pencil and colored pencil on paper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1990 (1990.4.8ab). Photograph © 1993 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Right: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Christ Cleansing the Temple, probably before 1570, National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection 1957.14.4
Pollock made studies after Michelangelo, Rubens, and other later artists. Above all, in the late 1930s he strongly admired El Greco's dramatic compositions.   
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