Martin Thompson (New Zealand artist)
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Martin Thompson (New Zealand artist)
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Martin Thompson was a New Zealand visual artist. Thompson was born in Wellington in January 1956. A self-taught artist, he gained fame in the world of outsider art for his grid-like drawings, created from plane fractals. A mathematical savant, Thompson calculated the formula needed for each artwork, creating images in which repeated patterns overlay at decreasing sizes and scales, much in the way of a Sierpinski carpet. Thompson described himself as "an old hippie", and with self-diagnosed Asper
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New Zealand artist (1956–2021)
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2023-07-26T21:54:45Z
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