Jackson Pollock Authentication Analysis with Kate Jones-Smith
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Our guest this week is\\xa0Hamilton physics professor Kate Jones-Smith\\xa0who joins us to discuss the evidence for the claim that drip paintings of Jackson Pollock contain fractal patterns. This hypothesis originates in a paper by Taylor, Micolich, and Jonas titled\\xa0Fractal analysis of Pollock\'s drip paintings\\xa0which appeared in Nature.\\xa0
Kate and co-author\\xa0Harsh Mathur\\xa0wrote a paper titled\\xa0Revisiting Pollock\'s Drip Paintings\\xa0which also appeared in Nature. A full text PDF can be found\\xa0here, but lacks the helpful figures which can be found\\xa0here, although two images are blurred behind a paywall.\\xa0
Their paper was covered in the\\xa0New York Times\\xa0as well as in USA Today (albeit with with a much more delightful headline:\\xa0Never mind the Pollock\'s\\xa0[sic]).\\xa0
While discussing the intersection of science and art, the conversation also touched briefly on a few other intersting topics. For example,\\xa0Penrose Tiles appearing in islamic art\\xa0(pre-dating Roger Penrose\'s investigation of the interesting properties of these tiling processes),\\xa0Quasicrystal designs in art,\\xa0Automated brushstroke analysis of the works of Vincent van Gogh, and attempts to\\xa0authenticate a possible work of Leonardo Da Vinci\\xa0of uncertain provenance. Last but not least, the conversation touches on the particularly compellingHockney-Falco Thesis\\xa0which is also covered in David Hockney\'s book\\xa0Secret Knowledge.\\xa0
For those interested in reading some of Kate\'s other publications, many\\xa0Katherine Jones-Smith articles\\xa0can be found at the given link, all of which have downloadable PDFs.