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Jackson
Pollock: Just the fractals
In a tizzy on a dark and stormy March night in 1952, Jackson Pollock
laid down the foundations of Blue Poles Number II. He unrolled a large
canvas across the floor of his windswept barn and, using a wooden stick,
dripped the canvas with household paint from an old can. This was not
the first time the artist had dripped a painting onto canvas. But he was
dripping with a feeling that night, boy! In contrast to the broken lines
painted by conventional brush contact, Pollock had developed a technique
in which he poured a constant stream of paint onto horizontal canvases
to produce uniquely continuous trajectories.
Computer analysis is helping to explain the appeal of Jackson Pollock's
paintings says Scientific American. But this is wierd science. Described
is a study of Pollock's fratalicious action paintings, correlated with
survey's that estimate what type of fractals average people tend to like.
-Sciam.com,
Dec. 2002.[ PDF, for fee]
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