Eighteen children, aged four to six, and 34 adults, aged 18 to 25, were recruited to recreate paintings such as Jackson Pollock’s by splattering diluted paint onto sheets of paper placed on the floor.

Jackson Pollock had bad balance. This is not the opinion of a snarky viewer sniping at a drip painting, but the assessment of Francis O’Connor, the great Pollock scholar. After a difficult birth ...

Researchers find adults paint richer, more varied trajectories than children, but paintings of the latter share characteristics with famous work by expressionists, including Jackson Pollock What makes ...

At first glance, the act of pouring paint across a canvas looks wild. Paint drops through the air, twists with each motion of the wrist, and splashes into tangled paths that seem to follow no plan.