Comments on: Weekly Update – Beautiful with fur or feathers http://www.theartblog.org/2009/12/weekly-update-beautiful-with-fur-or-feathers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weekly-update-beautiful-with-fur-or-feathers Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's artblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:43:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kathleen V. http://www.theartblog.org/2009/12/weekly-update-beautiful-with-fur-or-feathers/comment-page-1/#comment-23619 Kathleen V. Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:11:23 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11166#comment-23619 Just beautiful! Just beautiful!

]]> By: roberta http://www.theartblog.org/2009/12/weekly-update-beautiful-with-fur-or-feathers/comment-page-1/#comment-6939 roberta Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:35:25 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11166#comment-6939 Michael, you are so right that scientists practice art anonymously. I used to spend lots of time poring over Scientific American covers and inside pages for their gorgeous sci-art. Sometimes scientistartists are not so anonymous....Leonardo and Nobel prize winning chemist, Wally Gilbert, who makes edgy digital art (Corey did an interview with him recently). Audubon wasn't a credentialed scientist but he was a naturalist who combined his love of art and science in a relatively successful business publishing books of his discoveries. I love the Academy of Natural Sciences. When my kids were little we spent lots of time there, especially in the children's area where there were always specimens to pet or shy away from (tarantulas...arggh). And those dioramas? It's a great place to stoke your imagination. The Mutter indeed is macabre. It's not for everyone but it's truly art and science combined. Michael, you are so right that scientists practice art anonymously. I used to spend lots of time poring over Scientific American covers and inside pages for their gorgeous sci-art. Sometimes scientistartists are not so anonymous….Leonardo and Nobel prize winning chemist, Wally Gilbert, who makes edgy digital art (Corey did an interview with him recently). Audubon wasn’t a credentialed scientist but he was a naturalist who combined his love of art and science in a relatively successful business publishing books of his discoveries. I love the Academy of Natural Sciences. When my kids were little we spent lots of time there, especially in the children’s area where there were always specimens to pet or shy away from (tarantulas…arggh). And those dioramas? It’s a great place to stoke your imagination. The Mutter indeed is macabre. It’s not for everyone but it’s truly art and science combined.

]]> By: Michael Andre http://www.theartblog.org/2009/12/weekly-update-beautiful-with-fur-or-feathers/comment-page-1/#comment-6936 Michael Andre Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:49:53 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11166#comment-6936 This reminds me of your piece on the Haddon dinosaur which stimulated my only visit to the Museum of Natural History. The Mutter harbors a macabre art. What would one expect from a museum of medical anomalies? My late uncle was a biologist at Barnard, and his enormous lab was decorated with beautiful watercolors of fauna and flora made, he said, by "some nineteenth century Columbia expedition." Scientists practice art anonymously. This reminds me of your piece on the Haddon dinosaur which stimulated my only visit to the Museum of Natural History. The Mutter harbors a macabre art. What would one expect from a museum of medical anomalies? My late uncle was a biologist at Barnard, and his enormous lab was decorated with beautiful watercolors of fauna and flora made, he said, by “some nineteenth century Columbia expedition.” Scientists practice art anonymously.

]]> By: Lucinda keller http://www.theartblog.org/2009/12/weekly-update-beautiful-with-fur-or-feathers/comment-page-1/#comment-6924 Lucinda keller Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:58:28 +0000 http://theartblog.org/?p=11166#comment-6924 Fantastic! I wish I could go! Thank you for this post. I love these photos. Truly amazing. Fantastic! I wish I could go!

Thank you for this post. I love these photos. Truly amazing.

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