Why Are Bell Curves Hiding In Paintings?

The Bell Curve at the right was obtained by analyzing the arrangement of colours in Cezanne’s painting Quartier Four, Auvers-sur-Oise.

Finding nearly perfect Bell Curves inside the works of many great artists is unexpected.  You can learn more in this Research Paper.

The smooth curve shown above is an ideal bell curve.  The dots that lie almost on top of this curve were calculated from the colour information in Quartier Four, Auvers-sur-Oise.