Creating Atheist Fine Art - Mad Art Lab. Hey, I’m Glendon Mellow, a fine artist & illustrator, and I blog about art, evolution, copyright and atheism at The Flying Trilobite and you can see my portfolio here.
This is my first post on Mad Art Lab, and thanks to Amy for the invitation and to Brian for feedback! Fed up with the discussions for accommodating religious beliefs at the expense of science, I made a tweet into a painting. Tweet: “I’m thinking scientific accommodation of religion is akin to letting someone take your King’s Rook off the board because you’re winning.” When I created this a couple of years ago, I held a contest to see who could guess all the sciences depicted in the metaphorical chess board. Western Fine Art history illustrates the domination of religion on culture. “If history had worked out differently, and Michelangelo had been commissioned to paint a ceiling for a giant Museum of Science, mightn’t he have produced something at least as inspirational as as the Sistine Chapel?
Here's another Photo of the shuttle from my plane. Gustav Klimt's mysterious embryos. Amy Maxmen, contributor (Image: Gustav Klimt) Zeus covertly impregnated Danaë, the legendary princess of Argos, by disguising himself as golden coins, which streamed into the princess's locked chamber and ran down her thighs like raindrops as she slept.
Danaë's father had imprisoned the princess to shield her from men because of a prediction that his future grandson would one day kill him. The disguised Zeus gave Danaë a son, and destiny took its course. Geek A Week. The Art of Santiago Caruso at Street Anatomy. Santiago Caruso of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the artist/illustrator behind these haunting and wonderfully executed pieces.
Geology History in Caricatures: Exploring and Educating Geohistory. In the Victorian England there was a vivid interest in natural sciences, especially geology, and it was also a time of radical ideas and controversial new hypothesis - like uniformitarianism, glacial theory and evolution.
There was a large audience for caricatures. When direct criticism wasn't possible due gentleman's agreement, cartoons provided anyway an indirect way in which the artist or commissioning geologist could criticize a hypothesis or theoretical position. The most famous caricatures, depicted many times in books dealing with geology and palaeontology, were produced by the English geologist Henry De la Beche (1796-1855) to lampoon the theories of Charles Lyell and other contemporaries. The prominent "Professor Ichthyosaurus", depicted in the cartoon entitled "Awful Changes" (drawn in 1830), was considered for a long time to be inspired by William Buckland (1784-1856) and his teaching methods. Biologist Enthralls Kids With 'Maggot Art'
It's a method of art reminiscent of Jackson Pollack's abstract drip paintings.
Just more suited to the less squeamish. Erin Watson uses blow fly larvae — maggots — to get kids excited about painting. Judging by her upcoming educational demonstration project on the National Mall, it's working. "Maggot art," the brainchild of Southeastern Louisiana University biologist Watson, works like this. With kids watching her, Watson drops diluted water-based poster paint onto paper. Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery - Virtual Brain Surgery. The online manifestation of MetroCosm. Everything looks great in a planetarium dome :) Animals in the news. The Vintage Dinosaur Art Pool. Vintage Dinosaur Art: Susan Swan. Two spinosaurs chat about good fishing spots.
Illo by Susan Swan. Vintage Dinosaur Art posts have been heavy on the historical stuff lately, but now that I've got a new scanner and it's hooked up and humming, I'm digging into the stack of old dinosaur books I have sitting on my ancient CPU. One of the reasons I started this series was to bring light to artists whose body of work isn't defined by prehistoric worlds, who may have only dipped into dinosaurs for one or two titles.
Susan Swan is a good example of this. Dinosaur Mysteries, published in 1980, features a lot of her artwork. Spike's Gallery. 2 - A Selection of subjects imaged using crossed-polars and Rheinberg illumination. The Optimistic Painting Blog. Life's Time Capsule: Article-Philosofossilising What is Palaeo-Art. This is a reply to the question: What is Palaeo-Art?
This is an individual opinion on this topic. To read a number of different peoples' answer to this question click this link here. Science. Zodiacal_dobesberger_annotated.jpg (JPEG Image, 900x600 pixels) Bird's-eye view of the rainforest, indoors. The Eden Project in Cornwall, UK, is home to the biggest greenhouse in the world - and it now has a giant viewing platform that looks out over the rainforest it contains.
At 55 metres tall, the platform is taller than the Tower of London. The Eden Project opened to the public in 2001, and is made up of a number of giant domes called "biomes" that house plant species from all over the world. Now, visitors can get a bird's-eye view of the rainforest biome, seeing giant tress such as kapok and balsa, and even resident wildlife such as tree frogs and tiny birds known as Sulawesi white-eyes. (Image: Matt Cardy/Getty)
Science visualisation. Science photography.