Jackson Pollock, Closet Physicist

Jackson Pollock (d.1956) is famous to mainstream people more for the movie about his troubled life than his art, but his drip paintings have intrigued more than art historians.A quantitative analysis of Pollock's streams, drips, and coils reveals some deep knowledge of applied physics and an ability to exploit fluid dynamics.  Crossovers between art and science are nothing new, of course, Leonardo da Vinci's is the archetype of the "Renaissance man" because of his botanical sketches, proportional studies, flying machines, war engines and a painting or two.read more

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