Which action painter was Jack the Dripper?
William Green (action painter) including Greene. He had already been strongly influenced by reproductions he had seen of works by Jackson Pollock and made a conscious decision to be a non-figurative painter. From then on he followed Pollock's example and worked on the floor, treating the paintings as his "arena" and using ever larger sheets of hardboard instead of canvas. Since late 1955 he had gradually eliminated colour from his paintings, and in spring 1956 he decided to only make black bitumen paintings, with their monochrome surfaces subjected to increasingly more brutal gestures and mark-making, including attack by fire. In 1957 Green was approached
Jack Nichols (painter) Jack Nichols (painter) Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned him to depict the activities of the Canadian Merchant Navy and he left on a mission to the Caribbean with Michael Forster. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1944 and worked as an official war artist from April 1944 to August 1945. Most of