Jackson Pollock Licks A bit of lore about the painter Jackson Pollock: a journalist came to his studio one afternoon, surveyed the artist’s work and, unimpressed by the abstract splotches, told him, “That’s not art, any monkey can do that.” Pollock dipped his brush in a can of paint, gave it a deft flick of the wrist, and told the journalist to get the hell out. He pointed to the doorknob: on it, dead center, was a single dot of paint. • Try licking her the way Pollock painted: broad strokes, with pinpoint targeted precision. Swooping, serpent like, start with the flat part of the tongue and
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