from The Plain Dealer -
Paint experts say it's very unlikely Pollock had access to pigments patented after he died
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When technical analysis is at odds with connoisseurship, it unnecessarily plays up the seeming separation of (and power play between) a humanistic and a scientific approach in the study of art. In actual fact, art has to be understood as occpying that intersection between taste and materials, combining both creative ideas and skillful execution.

Also see earlier post here.
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