Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call “beautiful” or “aesthetic” are a crucial part of our humanity. Even the oldest known examples of rock and cave art served aesthetic rather ...

“As you abstract away details and still want viewers ... His research has focused on the positive impact of viewing fractal patterns in nature, which he said could reduce stress levels.

Alongside his career in physics, he created abstract art ... Pollock “adopted its language—fractals—to build his own patterns.” In 1999, Taylor reported that the fractal dimension of ...

Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when ... and his student Jingyi Gao used is based on fractals. These are patterns created by repeating the same smaller ...

manipulating it into abstract swirls using sticks or trowels. In 1999, an Australian group found that these swirls contained well-defined fractals – patterns that show self-similarity ...

These irregular geometric patterns also can be seen in ... haphazard drip paintings of Pollock, a famed abstract artist, captured nature's fractals. Taylor's findings have been published in ...

Pollock's abstract expressionist colleague, Willem De Kooning, also painted fractals. When he was diagnosed with dementia, some art scholars called for his retirement amid concerns that that it ...

Richard Taylor receives funding from The Australian Research Council, The Research Council for Science Advancement, and The WM Keck Foundation. Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call ...