Mondrian’s tree paintings and scientific theory highlight the importance of the thickness of tree branches. Consilience is when different lines of evidence and reasoning reach the same conclusions.

Tableau I by Piet Mondrian, 1921. [Image: Kunstmuseum Den Haag] When I saw Mondrian’s 1911 “Gray Tree,” I immediately recognized something about trees that I had struggled to describe.

FUKUOKA, Japan >> Gamers and passersby alike are delighted by a pixel art installation of a tree that looks like images from the popular video game Minecraft. The art is in Fukuoka City’s Tenjin ...

In real trees in nature, that number is usually somewhere between 1.5 and 3, depending on the tree. But in art, it’s all up to the artist and how they depicted their trees.

Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life counterparts, scientists have found. The math concept hidden in this tree art ...