They also examined Gustav Klimt’s 1909 painting “L’Arbre de Vie” (“Tree of Life”). They found that the trees depicted in the ...

This hidden math in some abstract paintings may even underlie our ability to recognise such artwork as depictions of trees, according to the research, published in the journal PNAS Nexus.

Despite being a somewhat abstract representation ... To test if this value had something to do with tree recognisability in art, the researchers used two paintings by Piet Mondriaan.