Digital SAT Reading and Writing Practice Question #275

Text 1 Art critics have long celebrated Jackson Pollock's "drip paintings" as the pinnacle of Abstract Expressionism, arguing that his technique was entirely spontaneous. According to this traditional view, Pollock's physical act of flinging paint onto canvases laid on the floor was a raw, unfiltered expression of emotion, representing a complete rejection of artistic planning, spatial calculation, or structural premeditation. Text 2 In recent years, physicists have utilized computer algorithms to conduct fractal analyses of Pollock's classic drip paintings. The results are startling: rather than being chaotic, Pollock's canvases contain highly structured, self-repeating geometric patterns (fractals) at multiple magnifications. The complexity of these fractals increases in works created later in his career, strongly suggesting that Pollock exercised meticulous, deliberate control over his layering process over extended periods. Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the assertion in Text 1 that Pollock's work was a "complete rejection of artistic planning"?