Tuesday, November 07, 2006

On Jackson Pollock

Christie auction house chalked up a record sales of £58m in a single auction recently, with Pollock's painting No.12 sold for £6.62m, the highest paid for a post-war US artist.


The painting's huge! The actual one that is. Totally chaotic, but fascinating for that very reason too.

Richard P. Taylor discovered that his paintings folllow fractal rules, where a minute part of the pattern is statistically similar to larger parts if you look at it in magnification.

Want to try doing a Pollock?

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