A retrospective of his work several years ago at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City drew lines around the blocks, and an award winning film of his life and art was released at eh end of 2000. In Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings as in nature, certain patterns are repeated again and again at various levels of magnification. Some fractal patterns exist only in mathematical theory, but others provide useful models for the …showed first 75 words of 538 total…

…showed last 75 words of 538 total…by the wind or by a stalking lion by tuning in to variations in fractal dimensions. But in settings with high fractal dimensions a densely branching rain forest, early humans would have been more vulnerable and thus more uneasy. The Pollockizer proves that generating fractal drip pattern is much harder than it looks. All of which suggests Pollock’s paintings are more than worth their price tags. The greatest living painter in the United States.