Some of the artists were once represented at these Bridges conferences and some are at the MoMath museum. Its format is a careful balance between a sketch of the artist, a short discussion of his or her work, and an easily accessible introduction to the "mathematics behind the art". This beautifully illustrated book by Ornes is about the "mathematical art" of nineteen contemporary visual artists. Some are coffee table books, mainly consisting of pictures, others are philosophical essays with some illustrations. Several books are available in which mathematics is linked to art. The Bridges Organization promotes the interaction between mathematics and visual art, music, architecture, and it organizes an annual conference around these ideas.
Several mathematicians are known to be also great musicians of produce visual art and most mathematicians have a soft spot for a certain kind of visual works of art that have some mathematical flavour. So there must be some link between mathematics and art. This brain activity is similar to what is observed when people see a beautiful painting or listen to music. Mathematicians consider some mathematics to be beautiful, and there has indeed been scientific research measuring that mathematicians showed increasing brain activity in the frontal cortex when seeing mathematical formulas.
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