SOME REMARKS ON FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF POLLOCK'S PAINTINGS

A fractal analysis was performed on various paintings by Pollock in order to show some of the challenges that are involved in using this technique in the process of authentification. The reason for using fractal analysis is the fact that Pollock’s paintings present a fractal dimension that increases over time and thus could prove valuable in the validation of the date of a specific painting. Based on a modification of traditional Box Counting Method from the HarFA soft using Digital Image Processing with Matlab the various fractal dimensions were obtained. Using different parameters we were able to show the variations that arise in the fractal analysis implying that this technique needs to be accompanied by other methods and is in need of standardization.