At first glance, the act of pouring paint across a canvas looks wild. Paint drops through the air, twists with each motion of the wrist, and splashes into tangled paths that seem to follow no plan.

Researchers find adults paint richer, more varied trajectories than children, but paintings of the latter share characteristics with famous work by expressionists, including Jackson Pollock What makes ...

The laws of physics were greater collaborators with Jackson Pollock than most painters. Leaning over unstretched canvas laid flat on the ground, the American artist experimented with the movement, ...

Not everyone appreciates the artistry of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings, with some dismissing them as something any child could create. While Pollock’s work is undeniably more sophisticated ...

Jackson Pollock paintings (fragments) and their multifractal spectra: Mural (left), Lavender Mist (right top), and Convergence (right bottom). All multifractal spectra at the same scale, with an ...