Via Luke I have just read an article on Jackson Pollock. Here's what I think, but a warning first: I don't claim to know anything about statistics, fractals, chaos theory, or modern art, but I do claim to love this kind of science, or what I can understand of it. I may be wrong in my interpretation of this article at certain points, but I assure you, I get the gist of it.
So I don't enjoy looking at Jackson Pollock's artwork. It's boring to me, chaotic, uninteresting. But I now have an immense amount of respect for it because of an article I just read on the fractal nature of his work. Statistically, his pieces speak the language of nature, which is statistical repetition and similarity. Because of the way he painted with movements of his entire body directing the lines of paint instead of the more limited arm-hand-brush motion of other painters, and because of his drip-splash techniques that mimic the motion of water (a chaotic system that follows fractal patterns), he was able to achieve high statistic repetitions of patterns across many scales. According to the mathematics (which I don't understand AT ALL but I believe the statisticians), his paintings had fractal values that are close to those of nature (lightning, trees, and coastlines for example).
He did all this before chaos and fractal theory were developed/discovered. Art preceding science! Art is science! Science is art! The patterns imagined and expressed by the creativity of the human brain are identical to the ones observed and calculated by analysis. It seems like the way we process our environment and express this processing through art is intuitively tied with the mathematical reality of our universe.
This is so cool to me. I thought you would like to hear about why I no longer hate
Jackson Pollock.
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Pollock still blows. Mike Valentino.blogspot.com
amen brudah
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