This is a list of artists who actively explored mathematics in their artworks. Art forms practised by these artists include painting, sculpture, architecture, textiles and origami.
Some artists such as Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli went so far as to write books on mathematics in art. Della Francesca wrote books on solid geometry and the emerging field of perspective, including De Prospectiva Pingendi (On Perspective for Painting), Trattato d’Abaco (Abacus Treatise), and De corporibus regularibus (Regular Solids),[1] [2] [3] while Pacioli wrote De divina proportione (On Divine Proportion), with illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci, at the end of the fifteenth century.[4]
Merely making accepted use of some aspect of mathematics such as perspective does not qualify an artist for admission to this list.
The term "fine art" is used conventionally to cover the output of artists who produce a combination of paintings, drawings and sculptures.
| Contribution to mathematical art | -HIDDEN - PLEASE WRITE ARTICLE FIRST | Simon Beck | 1958– | Landscape | Symmetrical patterns of tracks in snow landscapes[5] [6] --> | |||
| 1951– | Architecture | Mathematically-based architecture[7] [8] | -HIDDEN - PLEASE WRITE ARTICLE FIRST | date– | artform | --> | ||
| 1420–1492 | Fine art | Mathematical principles of perspective in art;[9] his books include De prospectiva pingendi (On perspective for painting), Trattato d’Abaco (Abacus treatise), and De corporibus regularibus (Regular solids) | ||||||
| 1981– | Origami | "Computational origami": mathematical curved surfaces in self-folding paper sculptures[10] [11] [12] | ||||||
| 1882–1950 | Textiles | Weaving patterns based on the expansion of multivariate polynomials[13] | ||||||
| 1968– | Digital art | Video art, VJing[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] | ||||||
| 1471–1528 | Fine art | Mathematical theory of proportion[19] [20] | ||||||
| 1922–1994 | Fine art | Use of group theory, self-replicating shapes in art[21] [22] | ||||||
| 1898–1972 | Fine art | Exploration of tessellations, hyperbolic geometry, assisted by the geometer H. S. M. Coxeter[23] | ||||||
| 1922–2019 | Fine art | Geometric constructions exploring the infinite, especially mirror mosaics[24] | ||||||
| 1940– | Digital art | Algorist, Digital artist | -HIDDEN - PLEASE WRITE ARTICLE FIRST | date– | artform | --> | ||
| 1927–2009 | Sculpture | Pioneer of geometric forms in sculpture[25] [26] | -HIDDEN - PLEASE WRITE ARTICLE FIRST | date– | artform | --> | ||
| 1966– | Sculpture | Sculpture based on mathematical structures[27] [28] | ||||||
| 1955– | Sculpture | Sculptures of 3-dimensional tessellations (lattices)[29] [30] | ||||||
| 1980– | Fine art | Equations-inspired mathematical visual art including mathematical structures.[31] [32] | ||||||
| 1930– | Fine art | Geometric abstraction in Constructivist art[33] [34] | ||||||
| 1452–1519 | Fine art | Mathematically-inspired proportion, including golden ratio (used as golden rectangles)[35] | ||||||
| 1949– | Sculpture | Sculptures of minimal surfaces, saddle surfaces, and other mathematical concepts[36] | ||||||
| 1890–1976 | Fine art | Photographs and paintings of mathematical models in Dada and Surrealist art[37] | ||||||
| 1990– | Fine art | Exploration of tessellations (resembling rep-tiles)[38] [39] | ||||||
| 1447–1517 | Fine art | Polyhedra (e.g. rhombicuboctahedron) in Renaissance art;[40] proportion, in his book De divina proportione | ||||||
| 1929–2011 | Sculpture | Mathematically-inspired sculpture[41] [42] | ||||||
| 1943– | Fine art | Painting, sculpture and computer visualizations of four-dimensional geometry[43] | - | 1985– | artform | --> | ||
| 1984– | Visual computer poetry | Geometry-inspired poetry [44] | ||||||
| 2014– | Fine art | Mathematical concepts (toposes, Brown representability, Euler's identity, etc) play a central role in his artwork.[45] [46] [47] | ||||||
| 1941– | Digital art | computer graphics, geometric modelling, and sculpture[48] [49] [50] | ||||||
| 1948– | Photography, sculpture | Photography and sculptures of mathematical models,[51] inspired by the work of Man Ray [52] and Marcel Duchamp[53] [54] | ||||||
| 1954– | Textiles | Crochets of hyperbolic space[55] | ||||||
| 1942–2015 | Architecture | Mathematically-inspired sculpture and architecture with polyhedral, spherical shapes and tensile structures [56] [57] | ||||||
| 1397–1475 | Fine art | Innovative use of perspective grid, objects as mathematical solids (e.g. lances as cones)[58] [59] | ||||||
[Mikołaj Jakub Kosmalski|Kosmalski, Mikołaj Jakub || 1986 || Digital art || Exploration of spreadsheet software capabilities (OO Calc and MS Excel), generation of finite sets of points by parametric formulas, connecting these points by curved (usually cubic) and broken lines.<ref>[[Artmajeur]] - Web site: Mikołaj Jakub Kosmalski. Artist's website at artmajeur.com. . |-| Verhoeff, Jacobus || 1927–2018 || Sculpture || Escher-inspired mathematical sculptures such as lattice configurations and fractal formations[60] |-| [Anduriel Widmark|Widmark, Anduriel || 1987– || Sculpture || Geometric [[glass sculpture]] using tetrastix, and knot theory[61] [62] |}External links |