In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but viewers don’t need a background in math to appreciate the completed pieces. Other mathematical works and figures from across the Smithsonian are in the mix.
Where Art Meets Math
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Painting - Law of Orbiting Velocities
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Painting - Fluxions (Newton)
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Painting - Mystic Hexagon (Pascal)
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Painting -Construction of Heptagon
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Painting - Every Positive Integer (Gauss)
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Painting - Logarithms
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Painting - Parabolic Triangles (Archimedes)
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Painting - Morley Triangle
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Sun Mathematics
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Homage to the Square--White Line-Black
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Painting -Law of Orbiting Velocity (Kepler)
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Painting - Numbers in a Spiral
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Key Blue (from series, the Mathematical Basis of the Arts)
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Painting - Pencil of Ratios (Monge)
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Homage to the Square: Glow
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Painting - Square Root of Two (Descartes)
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Painting - Cross Ratio in an Ellipse (Poncelet)
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Painting - Archimedes Transversal
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Painting - Doubled Cube (Newton)
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Painting - Aligned Triangles (Desargues)
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Painting - Perspective (Alberti)
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Honor Pythagoras, Per I--Per VI
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Painting - Squares of a 3-4-5 Triangle in Scalene Perspective (Dürer)
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Painting - Squared Circle