Revisiting Pollock's drip paintings

Katherine Jones-Smith and Harsh Mathur ()
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Katherine Jones-Smith: Case Western Reserve, University
Harsh Mathur: Case Western Reserve, University

Nature, 2006, vol. 444, issue 7119, E9-E10

Abstract: Abstract Arising from: R. P. Taylor, A. P. Micolich and D. Jonas Nature 399, 422; 1999 Taylor et al. reply We investigate the contentions that Jackson Pollock's drip paintings are fractals produced by the artist's Lévy distributed motion and that fractal analysis may be used to authenticate works of uncertain provenance1,2,3,4,5. We find that the paintings exhibit fractal characteristics over too small a range to be usefully considered as fractal; their limited fractal characteristics are easily generated without Lévy motion, both by freehand drawing and gaussian random motion. Several problems must therefore be addressed before fractal analysis can be used to authenticate paintings1.

Date: 2006
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