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Jackson Pollock: Harder to Imitate Than Vermeer?
12-Feb-2006
Written by: Carrie Ng
New studies by physicists have revealed fractal complexities in the infamous drip paintings.
There are two camps to the Pollock story: those that see his genius and those that see kindergarten creativity at its best. However, recently 24 alleged Pollock’s were unearthed by Alex Matter, son of the artists Herbert and Mercedes Matter, who were Pollock's friends. The physicist came to the conclusion that the paintings have unknown authors, but he is certain that Pollock is not the artist.
Pollock enthusiasts have also studied the paintings, and agreed that there certain “touches” that serve as a fingerprint to genuine Pollock’s, but have released no official statements concerning the 2003 discoveries. It is hard to spot a “fake” from the real thing especially when a lot of critics believe Pollock’s patterns were random, or as we have commonly heard that “anybody’s kid could do that.” Art historians have shed new light on the “fakes,” however, claiming that more accurately the drips and splashes were artists’ private experimentations.
Pollock was the only artist of his nature to become as notorious as he was. It was not just the art that people loved, but his attitude. He performed when he made art; crossed traditional art boundaries by using industrial materials. He was a true iconoclast of the art world.
Conclusively, fractal science has supported the claim that the more one tries to replicate Pollock, the further from genuine it becomes. Doesn’t seem so easy to plop down a couple of “scribbles” now eh?
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