Mathematics in the Visual Arts

A special case of artistic inspiration, derived from geometric and natural forms, is provided by Giuseppe Longo and Sara Longo in their article “Among the Trees: Iterating Geneses of Forms, in Art and Nature”, which presents the fractal geometric structure as a source of inspiration for the “Komorebi” project (an untranslatable Japanese word that refers to the effect of sunlight through the foliage).

At the interface of art and science, or belonging to both, scientific drawings and photography have also given rise to artistic works, as illustrated by the article by Bruno Chanetz, “The Passion of Flight: from Leonardo da Vinci to Jean Letourneur”, and by Jean Letourneur himself, “Sculptor of Fluid Movement”, whose drawings and sculptures draw their inspiration from visualizations created by an engineer at ONERA.

Finally, the most contemporary tools for experimental visual art are, no doubt, provided by advances in computer modeling and simulation. Sophie Lavaud, in her article “ Emergilience , an Art Research Project”, explains her project: exploring the conditions necessary for the emergence, through self-organization, of “infinite dynamic picture-systems” composed of collective and global shapes and phenomena.

Introduction written by Ruth SCHEPS and Marie-Christine MAUREL.

1 1Bill, M. (1949). The mathematical way of thinking in the visual art of our time. Werk, 3.

2 2Dali, S., Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), oil on canvas, 194.3 x 123.8 cm, 1954. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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