In the history of art prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record keeping or makes significant contact with another culture that has and that makes some record of major historical events. Mathematics and art have a long historical relationship. Mathematics and art are related in a variety of waysmathematics has itself been described as an art motivated by beautymathematics can be discerned in arts such as music dance painting architecture sculpture and textilesthis article focuses however on mathematics in the visual arts.