Ever since I read two or three years ago about the fractals in Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, I've wondered how he did it. He painted these fractals about 25 years before fractals were discovered by scientists. Clearly it wasn't an intellectual, contrived thing.
Remember how when questioned (I think it was by Hofmann) about why he didn't paint from nature, Pollocked answered: "I AM nature."
It turns out that he was absolutely correct. He was painting the way nature makes trees, clouds, cracks in mud. He was doing it swiftly, with sure gestures. He was painting as a whole person.
But how, really, did he know to do this?
I'd really, really like to know.
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