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Fractal Analysis: Revisiting Pollock's drip paintings
Katherine Jones-Smith1 & Harsh Mathur1
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.
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Fractal Analysis Revisiting Pollock's drip paintings (Reply)Nature Brief Communication (30 Nov 2006)
Fractal analysis of Pollock's drip paintingsNature Scientific Correspondence (03 Jun 1999)
