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Published online 13 September 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000914-11
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Research suggests that the abstract works of artists such as Jackson Pollock are pleasing because they imitate the natural world.
Jackson Pollock's paintings are aesthetically pleasing because they obey fractal rules similar to those of the natural world. So says Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, a mathematician at London's Imperial College.
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