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 ...

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 ...

The math Newberry and his student Jingyi ... value had something to do with tree recognisability in art, the researchers used two paintings by Piet Mondriaan. Known mostly for his right angles ...

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 ...

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.