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SUMMARY:Pollockian Mechanics:  Painting with Viscous Jets - Herczynski\, A
  (Boston College)
DTSTART:20120809T103000Z
DTEND:20120809T113000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Beginning around 1945\, American Abstract Expressionist painte
 r Jackson Pollock invented and perfected a new artistic technique based on
  pouring and dripping liquid pigment onto a canvas stretched horizontally 
 on the floor.  Long recognized as important and influential by art histori
 ans\, Pollock's works\, and the tangled webs he created\, have recently re
 ceived attention also from scientists.  But although the artist manipulate
 d gravitational flows to achieve his aims\, the fluid dynamical aspects of
  his process remained largely unexplored.  I will discuss Pollockian Mecha
 nics -- the physics of lifting paint by viscous adhesion and dispensing it
  in free jets -- focusing on the role of fluid instability.  This techniqu
 e will be contrasted with flows of pigment employed by other artists.  I w
 ill conclude with comments on the scaling regularities of the poured patte
 rns and their affinity to the "geometry of nature."\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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