He hides the old man's body under one of the wooden planks/floor boards. However, he later goes insane and imagines that he can hear the heart still beating and digs the body out. It's been a while since I read it so I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.

Jackson pollock described his art style in the following quote: “new needs need new techniques.… it seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the renaissance or of any other past culture. each age finds its own technique.” what point is pollock making about the new styles of art?