{"id":98195,"date":"2019-11-06T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/scientists-reveal-the-physics-of-jackson-pollocks-painting-technique"},"modified":"2019-11-06T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:23:40","slug":"scientists-reveal-the-physics-of-jackson-pollocks-painting-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/scientists-reveal-the-physics-of-jackson-pollocks-painting-technique","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal the physics of Jackson Pollock\u2019s painting technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-the-physics-of-jackson-pollocks-painting-technique2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The celebrated painter Jackson Pollock created his most iconic works not with a brush, but by pouring paint onto the canvas from above, weaving sinuous filaments of color into abstract masterpieces. A team of researchers analyzing the physics of Pollock\u2019s technique has shown that the artist had a keen understanding of a classic phenomenon in fluid dynamics\u2014whether he was aware of it or not.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in the journal <i>PLOS ONE<\/i>, the researchers show that Pollock\u2019s technique seems to intentionally avoid what\u2019s known as coiling instability\u2014the tendency of a viscous fluid to form curls and coils when poured on a surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike most painters, Jackson Pollock went through a long process of experimentation in order to perfect his technique,\u201d said Roberto Zenit, a professor in Brown\u2019s School of Engineering and senior author on the paper. \u201cWhat we were trying to do with this research is figure out what conclusions Pollock reached in order to execute his paintings the way he wanted. Our main finding in this paper was that Pollock\u2019s movements and the properties of his paints were such he avoided this coiling instability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The celebrated painter Jackson Pollock created his most iconic works not with a brush, but by pouring paint onto the canvas from above, weaving sinuous filaments of color into abstract masterpieces. A team of researchers analyzing the physics of Pollock\u2019s technique has shown that the artist had a keen understanding of a classic phenomenon in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}