Aesthetic Infinity

Aesthetic infinities are any depictions of the infinite in works of art. Many global historical artistic traditions, e.g. select works of Islamic art and Celtic folk art, utilize non-figural geometric patterning to evoke the unrepresentable omnipotence of God or, with the structural infinity of loops or recursion, depict ceaseless processes. In "Infinity and the Nostalgia of the Stars," Marco Bersanelli argues that the ultimate representations occur in figural works of art such as those of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Caspar David Friedrich, and Edward Hopper, where human desire for the infinite finds expression. Bersanelli prefers these depictions of the infinite to those of figural artists M. C. Escher and Andy Warhol.