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The ubiquity of fractal art can be observed with a simple web search, where a recent google query yielded 640,000 hits. Some will claim that this fact does not convey any artistic status to fractal images, only that an awful lot of folks name their works fractal art.
Which is why I'm happy to see that some big-time mathematics groups are finally recognizing the potential for creative artists to produce captivating art - even if they don't know the mathematics.
Earlier this year (August, 2006) the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) - the group that decides the recipient of the Fields Medal (the world's top mathematics prize) included a fractal art exhibit. The exhibitors were chosen after competing in the 2006 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest. Please visit the site where you'll be able to see the winners as well as a number of other entrants.
The promo for the exhibit does a great job of arguing for the existence of fractal art that is truly art:
The exhibition is formed by a collection of computer generated images by a group of artists and/or scientists specialized in fractal art. The mathematical expressions and the parameters used confer a unique and distinctive colour and aesthetics to every image.
Much like painters and sculptors transmit their personality and sensibility to their works by means of their technique, the authors of this exhibition express themselves by means of formulae and algorithms, modifying them progressively until the desired goal is obtained; reaching the frontiers between Art and Mathematics. The synthetic computer
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