Monday, June 1, 2009

Pre-Fractal Art

clipped from: www.darkroastedblend.com   
Before anybody knew Mandelbrot, artists were seeing fractals in nature and transfered the patterns in painting, design and sculpture. Fractals, as you know, are geometric patterns that are repeated on smaller and smaller scales to produce intricate designs outside the scope of classical geometry. They are described by a Mandelbrot equation.

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1. Medieval Celtic Book of Kells (597 A.D.)

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Art, Exhibitions, Collections

Art, Exhibitions, Collections

This cultural treasure contains every variety of design typical of Irish art at its best. The most characteristic ornaments of the Book of Kells, as of other illuminated Irish manuscripts of the period, are the closely coiled spirals connected with each other by a number of curves and terminating in the so-called "trumpet fractal pattern".

2. Fractals have a rich history in African Design:

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Art, Exhibitions, Collections

fractals in typical Ethiopian ornaments; 
in village architecture:

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Art, Exhibitions, Collections

3. Persian & traditional Islamic ornaments

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Art, Exhibitions, Collections

Art, Exhibitions, Collections

4.The Italian Renaissance & Dutch Masters

Space Filling by Iteration:

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Art, Exhibitions, Collections

Art, Exhibitions, Collections

Art, Exhibitions, Collections

Art, Exhibitions, Collections

Art, Exhibitions, Collections

Art, Exhibitions, Collections

Art, Exhibitions, Collections

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