Mathematical Artists

From EscherMath

This page lists past and current artists with strong mathematical influences. Each artist is tagged to indicate whether they are:

Art world

Math world

Painting and Graphic Art

• Albrecht Dürer, particularly his 1514 woodcut Melancolia I.
• Victor Vasarely. Known as the father of Op-Art.
• Crockett Johnson. Better known for his children's books (including Harold and the Purple Crayon), he produced a series of geometric paintings.
• Makoto Nakamura. Art involving tessellations.
• István Orosz. Graphic design involving illusion and anamorphosis.
• Dick Termes. Six point perspective on spheres.
• Julian Beever. Pavement drawings with anamorphic illusion.
• Oscar Reutersvärd. Impossible figures.
• Sandro Del Prete. Impossible figures and illusions.
• Tony Robbin. Visualizing the fourth dimension.
• Clifford Singer. Abstract figures based on plane curves.
• Eleni Mylonas. Penrose tilings.
• Alfred Jensen. Blazingly colorful abstract paintings involving patterns, numbers, symbols, mysticisim.

Sculpture

• Harriet Brisson Neon tubes. Ceramics. Sculpture.
• Max Bill Geometric paintings. Möbius strip sculpture.
• Brent Collins. Knot and surface sculpture.
• Helaman Ferguson Knot and surface sculpture. One of the best known of the very mathematical artists.
• Nat Friedman Knot surfaces. Fractals.
• Bathsheba Grossman. Knot and surface sculptures with complicated symmetry.
• George W. Hart. Polyhedra, zome structures, tensegrity structures.
• Charles O. Perry. Knot spanning surfaces.
• Arlene Stamp. Public art involving mathematical patterns.
• Koos Verhoeff. Sculptures with fractals, topology, and geometry.

Computer Art

• Akiyoshi Kitaoka Optical illusions.
• Jos Leys Fractals, dynamics, hyperbolic geometry.