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September 16, 2008
Jackson Pollock paints and speaks
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Yea, I didn't really feel much for his work either until I read Richard P. Tayor's Scientific American article on the relationship between Pollock's work and naturally occurring fractals, which definitely threw it into a light that I could appreciate much more. Regardless if his role within it is either conscious or unconscious, the relationship between his work and fractals still speaks of a fascinating aspect of process and our perceptions of complexity and patterns. The article is available free here:
http://materialscience.uoregon.edu/taylor/art/scientificamerican.pdf
Taylor even has pushed to use the method of fractal analysis as a means of validating Pollocks, but it has attacked by a few others as insufficient as a standalone tool for this purpose. The jury still seems to be out on that one.
Posted by: johnjohn | Sep 16, 2008 4:53:40 PM
I just think about that movie "My kid could paint that" whenever I think about Pollock. The only credit I can give him, is that he was the first one to popularize that style of painting. Other than that, I just don't see it as art. Well, aside from that open-ended "intresting to look at" definition of art.
Posted by: Rocketboy | Sep 16, 2008 11:23:30 AM
