Mark Berman

Nature is filled with curved edges.

And one thing that we found in our research is that people really like images that have more curved edges, even built images.

So images of architectural scenes that don't have any nature in them.

If the architecture has more curved edges, people tend to like that architecture more.

Well, it wasn't good.

Jackson Pollock moved from California to New York to be with his brothers.

When his father died, he had extreme depression.

and alcoholism and, you know, he was taking sculpting classes, but he was just not very happy, very mentally disturbed, having a lot of problems with depression and alcoholism.

Yes.

At an art gallery, he yelled that he was a much better artist than anyone that had their art being displayed in the art gallery.

And subsequently, he lost the ability to be in that art gallery.

He got into an argument one time and was so angry that he turned over a whole table that had all of the food on the table and like 12 roast beef dinners were just flying all over the place.

It was a huge mess, essentially ending the dinner party right then and there.

I think she wanted to get him out of the New York environment where, you know, there were so many bars that he frequented, to remove him from that environment, maybe also removing him from some of the people that he was hanging around at the time, and to maybe sort of take him to a more natural, a quieter environment out in Long Island, that the fresh air might be good for him.

I think it was like in Springs, Long Island, which is in East Hampton.

And it was a pretty modest home, but it had like a barn and maybe an acre of land.

There was a lot of sort of beautiful nature to look at.

And it did seem to inspire some changes in Jackson.

What changes?

He was no longer as volatile.