Personal reflections on Jackson Pollock's fractal paintings

História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos

Richard Taylor¹ 

[1] ,University of Oregon Eugene Department of Physics ,USA

关键词: Jackson Pollock;    fractal;    paintings;    science and art;    Jackson Pollock;    fractais;    pintura;    ciência e arte;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-59702006000500007

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The art world changed forever when Jackson Pollock picked up a can and poured paint onto a vast canvas rolled across the floor of his windswept barn. Fifty years on, art theorists recognize his patterns as being a revolutionary approach to aesthetics. A significant step forward in understanding Pollock's aesthetics occurred in 1999 when my scientific analysis showed that his paintings are fractal. Fractals consist of patterns that recur at finer and finer magnifications, building up shapes of immense complexity. Significantly, many natural patterns (for example, lightning, clouds, mountains, and trees) are also fractal. In this essay, I will present some personal reflections on this relationship between the fractal patterns of Pollock and those of nature, and also on the interactions between art and science as the project evolved.

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