Fractality of Riopelle abstract expressionism paintings (1949–1953): A comparison with Pollock’s paintings

Alvarez-Ramı́rez, José; Martinez-Martinez, F.

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.121131

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“…The most serious problem of identity loss begins where there are extreme threats to the very origin/roots of identity. Erickson believed that the formation of identity begins where personal identification becomes inappropriate, "A person does not feel at home", and does not feel an inner conviction in the recognition of those whom he considers authorities (Alvarez-Ramirez et al, 2019).…”

Section: National or Ethnic Identity And The Problem Of Its Loss Frommentioning

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Connotations of Identities in William Kurelek’s Paintings: Typology and Critical Art Analysis

Beregovska¹,

Zhavoronkova²,

Кротова³

et al. 2021

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Despite the high popularity of William Kurelek in Canadian society, relatively few interpretations of his works can be found at the scientific, art criticism level. Based on the analysis of William Kurelek’s artistic legacy a typological study was conducted identifying the Canadian artist’s thinking and personal position declared openly in his art. A study of the thematic content of his paintings led to the identification of the following categories: personal, religious and awareness of community membership. The article outlines the difference between the notion of national and ethnic identity, which the artist saw in the difference between national and ethnic identity an instrument to self-awareness through membership in a particular community as a result of common spiritual, religious and social convictions with shared modes of behavior, mores and traditions. As a result of the study, we derived a certain formula of identity in the works of William Kurelek, which the author understood as a set of ethnic, national, gender-based, and religious characteristics inherent in a person, demonstrating its identity as the appropriate group affiliation. We also conducted a typology of identities in his art: personal, religious, awareness of community membership, national and ethnic. We analyzed the issues of commonality and differences between national and ethnic identity, designating them as “ethnic calmness” and “ethnic stress”.

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Section: National or Ethnic Identity And The Problem Of Its Loss Frommentioning

confidence: 99%

Connotations of Identities in William Kurelek’s Paintings: Typology and Critical Art Analysis

Beregovska¹,

Zhavoronkova²,

Кротова³

et al. 2021

rupkatha

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“…Since this early work, many other authors explored and further developed similar approaches leading to a singular fractal dimension characterizing Pollock's abstractions 11,12 and paintings by other artists. 7,8,[13][14][15][16] Other methods for pattern recognition and categorizing images are based on contour curvature statistics, 17 topological invariants, 18 detrended fluctuation analysis, and multifractal index, 19 various measures of complexity such as Hurst exponent, 20 various measures of self-similarity, 21 information entropy, 14,22 and hidden Markov models, 23 to name a few approaches. Numerous attempts to use such singular parameters to date artworks or at least assign them to a particular epoch or style have been undertaken.…”

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“…Paningrahy et al 28 provide a comprehensive review of the DBC literature and compare results obtained using various approaches for synthetic examples, Brownian motion trajectories, aerial photographs, and also for the Brodatz dataset of texture photographs. 29,30 Color images entail additional challenges and are sometimes converted into gray-scale images 11,12,19 or broken into their singlehue components, a procedure which is problematic 10 and possible only when the images are composed using a discrete set of pigments or are somehow filtered in color-space. 14,31 A few more advanced methods for treating color have been proposed, notably based on distances in the RGB space 32 and on extending the DBC approach to the five-dimensional space.…”

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Fractal contours: Order, chaos, and art

McDonough,

Herczyński

2024

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science

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Over the recent decades, a variety of indices, such as the fractal dimension, Hurst exponent, or Betti numbers, have been used to characterize structural or topological properties of art via a singular parameter, which could then help to classify artworks. A single fractal dimension, in particular, has been commonly interpreted as characteristic of the entire image, such as an abstract painting, whether binary, gray-scale, or in color, and whether self-similar or not. There is now ample evidence, however, that fractal exponents obtained using the standard box-counting are strongly dependent on the details of the method adopted, and on fitting straight lines to the entire scaling plots, which are typically nonlinear. Here, we propose a more discriminating approach with the aim of obtaining robust scaling plots and extracting relevant information encoded in them without any fitting routines. To this goal, we carefully average over all possible grid locations at each scale, rendering scaling plots independent of any particular choice of grids and, crucially, of the orientation of images. We then calculate the derivatives of the scaling plots, so that an image is described by a continuous function, its fractal contour, rather than a single scaling exponent valid over a limited range of scales. We test this method on synthetic examples, ordered and random, then on images of algorithmically defined fractals, and finally, examine selected abstract paintings and prints by acknowledged masters of modern art.

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Scale, Symmetry, and Nonlinearity

Suteanu

2022

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Fractality of Riopelle abstract expressionism paintings (1949–1953): A comparison with Pollock’s paintings

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Connotations of Identities in William Kurelek’s Paintings: Typology and Critical Art Analysis

Connotations of Identities in William Kurelek’s Paintings: Typology and Critical Art Analysis

Fractal contours: Order, chaos, and art

Scale, Symmetry, and Nonlinearity

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