Resumen de The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions

Claude Cernuschi, Andrzej Herczynski

• It is generally acknowledged that Pollock’s mode of painting was contingent on an idiosyncratic employment of gravity: pouring paint, after all, is a gravitational phenomenon par excellence. This defining aspect of Pollock’s technique—his enlisting of fluid dynamics in the artistic process—invites scrutiny from the perspective of both art and science. In close collaboration, an art historian and a physicist investigate, for the first time, the mechanics of Pollock’s handling of liquid paint under gravity, permitting an exploration of the formal advances thereby enabled and their broader implications for the meaning and ethos of his work.