Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules ...

When a large abstraction with a $60,000 high estimate sold for $1.2 million, the art world woke up and said “Who is Lynn ...

“That really triggered an emotional response to my art that I hadn't really experienced before,” Rottmann said. “People have always liked my art, but when you add the emotional element of someone's ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind their branching pattern in nature, a new study says. At such a critical moment in US ...

Despite being a somewhat abstract representation ... But by looking at fractals in art and trees, the researchers hoped to start a discussion. “This theory of proportion outlines an ideal ...

You may not be able to define “fractal” — yet — but fractals are, in fact, everywhere. As you might expect from hearing her title, Hayley Brazier, Donald M. Kerr curator of natural history ...

A new scientific study is challenging long-held beliefs about Jackson Pollock and his iconic “drip paintings,” suggesting that the Abstract Expressionist may have embedded hidden images ...

This hidden math in some abstract paintings may even ... “We analyse trees in artwork as self-similar, fractal forms, and empirically compare art with theories of branch thickness developed ...

A fractal is a shape that repeats itself on different scales ... a Japanese painting from the 1700s, and early 1900s Dutch abstract art. Each of these cultural pieces showed a similar balancing act in ...