The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees. The authors begin ...

What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

The Druids, a class of priests who lived in the Iron Age, communicated via an alphabet that consisted entirely of drawings of tree branches, with each letter or sound accorded an arboreal species and ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

A vignette gives home design inspiration for the holidays at Orlando Museum of Art’s annual Festival of Trees on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. An elf seems to have gotten caught in a tree at Orlando Museum ...

A GIF comparing Vincent van Gogh’s “Olive Trees” to Stan Herd’s crop art rendition (all images courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Arts unless otherwise stated) The gridded version Herd used as a guide ...

Nature speaks for itself, while art amplifies whatever nature has to say. Artist Luca Gnizio has cut a niche for himself in amplifying the communications of nature. His latest project, Forsoultree, ...

Piet Mondrian painted the same tree in "The gray tree" (left) and "Blooming apple tree" (right). Viewers can readily discern the tree in "The gray tree" with a branch diameter scaling exponent of 2.8.

Janet Austin working on her tree in Palmer Square Park, Chicago (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) CHICAGO — As its name suggests, the emerald ash borer is a beautiful little green bug, with an ...