Category Archives: Artists & Art

Vladimir Gvozdev

Posted on January 30, 2007 by cicada

Ibis Vladimir Gvozdev, 2006 How do I adore Bibliodyssey? Let me count the ways, but meanwhile, check out the fanciful work of mixed-media artist Vladimir Gvozdev. (He is definitely not an easy artist to summarize, so just go look around … Continue reading →

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Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci online

Posted on January 29, 2007 by cicada

An essential art/science website to bookmark, if you haven’t already: Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci online. The simulation of curatorial imaging techniques used to study the Lansdowne Madonna is nicely done, as are the overview of math and proportion in … Continue reading →

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Juxtaposition

Posted on January 28, 2007 by cicada

59 People and 1 Cat Fabric and Photo Transfer Camille Whiteman Wooden case containing sixty small phrenological heads plaster and wood William Bally, 1831

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Medical illustration: future and past

Posted on January 27, 2007 by cicada

If you read my earlier post on anatomical representations of the female reproductive organs, you are familiar with Jan van Rymsdyk’s landmark engravings of a dissected full-term uterus. Thanks to Street Anatomy, an interesting new medical illustration blog, I see … Continue reading →

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Watercolor: Wendy Artin

Posted on January 27, 2007 by cicada

Cabbage Watercolor on paper, 2000 Wendy Artin I first discovered watercolorist Wendy Artin in Vanity Fair magazine. She was surrounded by four larger-than-life charcoal drawings of Renaissance statuary, wearing solid black and a dramatic pendant necklace, looking very much the … Continue reading →

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A leaf on the family tree

Posted on January 24, 2007 by cicada

Study for Transmission no. 3 Binh Danh, 2006 leaf preserved in resin Haines Gallery A timely post from Sciencesque identifies two artists, the late Axel Erlandson and Binh Danh, whose medium is living plant material. Binh Danh’s leaf prints are … Continue reading →

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Deep Blue Seaweed

Posted on January 23, 2007 by cicada

Anna Atkins Dictyota dichotoma cyanotype from Photographs of British Algae, 1843-1853 Like many women in science of previous centuries, Anna Atkins (1799-1871) had the immense advantage of an educated father. John George Children was a prominent scientist and member of … Continue reading →

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Anxious Influence

Posted on January 22, 2007 by cicada

Hungry Hyaena has a thoughtful post on plagiarism, intellectual property, and the artist’s perspective on information saturation: Artists are turning to the symbolic and the approximate in an effort to render experience comprehensible. Certainly this is an important, even vital … Continue reading →

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The Ironic Workout: five muscles at once!

Posted on January 19, 2007 by cicada

This is a screenshot from a wonderful anatomy learning tool, Artnatomy, by artist and educator Victoria Contreras Flores. It’s meant to teach facial anatomy in a Fine Arts context, but would work equally well in an introductory A&P course. Teaching … Continue reading →

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Are those tentacles on your ceiling?