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Originally Posted by JohnMacnab
Pollack's work has been analyzed with computers and found to be freehand fractal geometry. Only a true genius could have done that.
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Fractal means broken, broken patterns? That is open to so many things.
That is the exact job of a computer......To find patterns of any sort...A computer should not analyze art......It cannot detect beauty......Unless you define beauty in purely mathematical terms....People with symmetric body parts are considered beautiful to most people.
What about that mole that made Cindy Crawford famous? That was not symetry...Yet people found her beautiful. What are YOUR thoughts on Picasso, Monet, Manet, the impressionist? True art is not paint by numbers IMHO. It has errors, and is a canvas painted over by a master on many occasions......IMHO.
Frida Kahlo was inspired by pain and death.....Her works are amazing to me. Some say her later works were inspired by Rivera, but they are still great....
The stroke of the brush. The length of the stroke, the amount of paint used in that one stroke, the medium used, the passion makes it beautiful. The painstaking gentle strokes to create the luster on the pearl on Girl With A Pearl earring fascinate me.
Cave men painted on walls to tell their story to future generations...Now painters express their anger or melancholy on a canvas....They tell us their story. Some people find that beautiful if they can somehow relate to that piece. Those are just my thoughts......
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fractal is "a rough or fragmented
geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"
[1] a property called
self-similarity. Roots of the idea of fractals go back to the 17th century, while mathematically rigorous treatment of fractals can be traced back to functions studied by
Karl Weierstrass,
Georg Cantor and
Felix Hausdorff a century later in studying functions that were
continuous but not
differentiable; however, the term
fractal was coined by
Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the
Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." A mathematical fractal is based on an
equation that undergoes
iteration, a form of
feedback based on
recursion.
[2] There are several examples of fractals, which are defined as portraying exact self-similarity, quasi self-similarity, or statistical self-similarity. While fractals are a mathematical construct, they are found in nature, which has led to their inclusion in
artwork. They are useful in medicine, soil mechanics,
seismology, and
technical analysis.
Art (inspired by GP)
