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After Marcel Duchamp’s advice Pollock started painting on the canvas instead of the walls, as the canvas paintings were movable. “I took one look at it and I thought, ‘Now that’s great art,’ and I knew Jackson was the greatest painter this country had produced. The catalog introducing his first exhibition described Pollock’s talent as “… volcanic. It has fire. It is unpredictable. It is undisciplined. It spills out of itself in a mineral prodigality, not yet crystallized,” said the art critic Clement Greenberg.