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Before Pollock: How Janet Sobel of Dniepra Changed the World's Art — and Why the Art World Branded Her as a Housewife

She created "all" compositions from sprayed and painted paint even before the drip painting became Jackson Pollock's guest card, but the world remembered it as a buntar genius, and her most influential artists were callously called a housewife. The story of Janet Sobel (Olekhovskaya), a Jewish refugee from Dniepra, is a story about an artistic revolution in which her role for decades was downplayed; about the gender bias of the art world and the…
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She created "all" compositions from sprayed and painted paint even before the drip painting became Jackson Pollock's guest card, but the world remembered it as a buntar genius, and her most influential artists were callously called a housewife. The story of Janet Sobel (Olekhovskaya), a Jewish refugee from Dniepra, is a story about an artistic revolution in which her role for decades was downplayed; about the gender bias of the art world and the…

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ZN.UA Зеркало недели broke the news in Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, July 25, 2026.
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