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Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

At The Met Fifth Avenue
January 31–May 8, 2017

Exhibition Overview

The visualization of mathematics has taken many forms since the advent of printing. Animated by tensions between the abstract and the figural, the geometric and the gestural, these works from The Met collection show how artists from the 15th century to contemporary times have engaged in the creation and communication of mathematical knowledge through the use and production of images.

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In this Now at The Met article, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow Noam Andrews takes a close look at the Concinnitas series—a group of 10 aquatint prints of equations chosen by a prominent list of mathematicians and physicists—on view in this exhibition.

Steve Smale (American, born 1930). Newton's Method from the portfolio Concinnitas, 2014. Aquatint, plate: 22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm); sheet: 26 1/8 x 31 5/8 in. (66.4 x 80.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, John B. Turner Fund, 2015 (2015.518)