Never said his craftsmanship couldn't be matched, I just said its harder than it looks to create something like that, and while he of course did not intend for

Never said his craftsmanship couldn't be matched, I just said its harder than it looks to create something like that, and while he of course did not intend for every drop of paint to be just there like with traditional paintings, neither is it "random". If I kept up with it for some time and gained more knowledge of the paint materials and how they worked together, I'm sure I could create something similar. Art doesn't have to be painstakingly "difficult" or require superhuman skill in order to be considered "good". Sure, some forms of art do require more skill than others, but that by no means translates 1-to-1 with cultural impact. You mention elsewhere that Pollock's main contribution is art as "process" which I would agree with, its something that he shared with a few of his contemporaries. I'm also very interested in generative art, and he is an early example of this idea. I'm aware he didn't invent abstract art or anything like that.