ABC News: Expert Has Theory for Disputed Pollacks

[Roger Bagula]

Since the 50's many have said Pollack's work wasn't really art...

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1646028

Fractal geometry finding patterns in chaos was first applied to Pollock
paintings in the late 1990s by Richard Taylor, a University of Oregon
physicist with an art degree and a longtime interest in abstract art.
Taylor used the mathematics of fractal analysis to show Pollock had an
intuitive grasp of the complex patterns of nature when he created art
that some critics dismissed as mere splashes of paint. And he concluded
that Pollock's style in his known works was impossible to duplicate.