The researchers selected plant life as the subject for pictorial expression, a subject that a priori has no apparent link with geometry and symmetry. With the help of a puppet, the children were ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever since I saw the Metropolitan Museum’s stunning show of Ellsworth Kelly’s botanical drawings, I have been ogling ...

When you hear the word 'artist,' you usually think of someone who paints the colorful pictures hanging in an art museum. But there's a type of artist who specializes in drawing wild plants. This is ...

Artist Annalee Davis was walking in fields once used for sugarcane in her Barbados homeland when she spotted unfamiliar plants. “I was taught to see them as weeds but now I understand their value ...

The research group discovered that between the ages of 4 and 7 children are already starting to associate the plant world with the animal world when asked to draw plants. The researchers studied the ...

From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival facade of Federal ...

They’re posted on fences and sign posts near the New River in Fort Lauderdale; you’ll find them on some Himmarshee Street restaurant counters, too. Amid the historic markers, boisterous eateries and ...

This study shows that children up to the age of 7 spontaneously use symmetry in their drawings to express their knowledge about plant life. In the sample analysed, this is a very frequent strategy and ...