Math plays an essential role in art as a means to create aesthetically pleasing compositions, ratios that appeal to the human eye have been calculated by math and are used by many artists. One such ratio is the “The golden Ratio”, roughly equal to 1.618, this ratio has been discerned in Greek vases and Chinese pottery and is seen frequently in nature. One mathematician, Adolf Zeising that the golden ratio would pop up everywhere in nature and believed it to be a governing universal law. The ratio can be found in DNA, shells, butterflies, flowers, fishes, etc. Two aspects of math in art I would like to show are M.C. Escher’s paintings and fractal art.
M.C. Escher is a mathematician who is famous for his paintings that utilize math to create tessellations. Fractal art is the ultimate implementation of math in art. Fractal art is created by processing algorithms in powerful computers , which then form complex figures that surprisingly have aesthetic appeal. Here are a few
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