In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but ...

From 1965 until his death in 1975 Crockett Johnson painted over 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Of these paintings, eighty are found in the collections of the National ...

“Mathemalchemy” has been described as “a mathematics fever dream turned artistic playground for all math lovers (and haters, ...

Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life counterparts ...

This hidden math in some abstract paintings may ... Edo period Japanese painting, and 20th-century abstract art. They found that the values of α in these artworks range from 1.5 to 2.8, similar ...

As it turns out, there’s a good reason the big art apps haven ... creative application of mathematics has netted aesthetically beautiful results! Combine yellow and blue paint, and the only ...

The study authors are not the first to apply math to trees in art. Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci observed tree growth and came up with his own mathematical rule for painting trees.