The two paintings contain few elements that might signal a tree – a concentration of lines near the center, lines that could be branches or a central trunk and lines that could indicate the ...

Walk into Wilkes University’s Sordoni Art Gallery and look to your left. Your eyes will be drawn to Susanne Slavick’s ...

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. Trees are ...