Science and Art

Bioart and Ecoart

Scientist and artist are teaming up to help in aiding the expansive research of Multispecies Ethnography, a way in which they helped get more scientist artist and the public was through the Mulitspecies Salon held in 2008. The Multispecies Salon art exhibit in the PLAySPACEGallery of the California College of Arts—alongside the 2008 AAA Annual Meeting—explored how artists

might be allies in thinking about biological beings and becomings in anthropology. Several Artist/ Scientist like Marina Johnston, Caitlin Berrigan, Frederic Landmans and Patrica Piccinini joined together to mix paintings, sculptures, performance art and animal art in order to promote the Multispecies Salon.

    This poster illustrates one of the many creatures that have been created to help be a "spokes person" for endangered animals. This bizarre humanoid creature on the poster was created by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. His purpose is to help protect the critically endangered Golden Helmeted Honeyeater. Johnston says, "He will protect [the honeyeater] from exotic predators, and he has powerful jaws that allow him to bite into trees, to provide the birds with sap.” So not only do the artist create wonderful spokes creatures but they also give it purposeful morphologies.


 
 
     Other artist aim at the anthropological view point and include things that have or could be affected by human actions that both hurt people and other organisms with in an ecosystem. Artist Marina Johnston created a sculpture adequately named "Twins." in this sculpture, there are two ceramic grubs with prematurely developed wings. this wings are meant to be an allegory of premature human development. Specifically early breast development in young girls due to the use of hormones in animal product like beef. The underlying theme is why does the body develop it, in this case wings, before the animal can walk. Thus putting it in to another perplexing situation.


For the performance art aspect of the Salon, Caitlin Berrigan used her own blood to feed a dandelion. This may not seem that significant and only just a little peculiar, but it was to show that her own blood is able to help another living organism; in this case a plant. Her work is powerful because she is infected with Hepatitis C which makes her blood poison to other humans and harmful to other mammals. But in the case of the Dandelion it acts a fertilizer because it is rich in nitrogen, which the plant needs in order to grow. ( Exscript from Cultural Anthropology Journal)


"Noting that the recipient of her nurturing gesture is regarded as a “weed,”
Berrigan worked to give the dandelion biographical and political life (bios), elevating
it from the realm of bare life. “The dandelion actually has a lot to offer us even
though they grow everywhere, and are killed with herbicides,” she later told us
(see also Berrigan 2009). Berrigan’s art and personal medical regimen might be
understood as a “microbiopolitical” intervention, calling attention to how living
with microorganisms (in this case, a pathogenic virus) is caught up in discourses
about how humans ought live with one another."


The other form of art that was exhibited in many different ways between just using insects live in a cage to grab an audience, like butterflies, or bacteria growing in a petri dish. Scientist Frederic Landmans used Drosophila flies in a container to show their culturally shaped patterns. He also illuminated the Wahlbacia bacteria to show how it lives everywhere and is found in every living animals digestive tract.



Other animal exhibits shown were mice that have had their pigment cells mixed with that of jellyfish causing the to glow in UV light, this has also been done with rats, fish, pigs and other test animals. this portion of the Salon was under genetically modified animals which also had a few plants.



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Cultural Anthropology; Nov2010, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p545-576, 32p, 4 Black and White Photographs

Master of Atmosphere

Turner

 J.M.W. Turner is a Romantic painter form England from the eighteen hundreds. In his mature work there are definite characteristics like clarity and brightness and an overwhelming sense of light. In his work he would apply thick layers of pure hues and use thin layers of transparent hues to bring the parts together. His main goal or objectives in his works were to show the atmosphere and weather conditions. Many of his works mix steam, rain, clouds and smoke. Because of his masterful work illustrating the atmospheric effects during the industrial revolution he has been dubbed the Master of atmosphere of many. Majority of his paintings are of seascapes focusing on a storm that is in a way attacking the subject often a ship. Great examples of his amazing seascapes are The Fighting ‘ Temeraire’ tugged to her Last Berth, The Slave Ship and The Shipwreck.

The Fighting ‘ Temeraire’ tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up, 1838, oil on canvas, 91 x 122 cm

 The Slave Ship, 1840, oil on canvas, 90.8 x 122.6 cm

 The Shipwreck, 1805, oil on canvas, 170.5 x 241.5 cm

Rain, Stream, and Speed, 1844, oil on canvas, 90.8 x 122 cm

J.M.W. Turner, Selfportrait done at the beginning of his career.

Man With his Mustache

Salvador Dali

We have all had strange dreams at one time or another and some have even wished to share what it was we saw in those dreams to others. One artist who was masterful in executing this was Salvador Dali. He was a Spanish painter; his most well know works were made in the 1930’s during the Spanish civil war. The style in which he chose to work in is Veristic Surrealism, which is a genre of surrealism that uses hyper-realism in the forms painted. Many of his works have Freudian undertones that help give the works a little more depth. He was also a skilled photographer, sculptor and filmmaker.
 

The Persistence of Memory 1931, oil on canvas, 24.1x33cm

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One second Before Awakening, 1944, oil on canvas, 51x40.5cm  

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946, Oil on canvas, 89.7x 119.5cm

Still Life - Fast Moving, 1956, oil on canvas

Raphealesque Head, Exploded, 1951 Oil on Canvas, unfinished.

Salvador Dali

Spitalfeilds Griffiti

While wondering the street of London, England if you ever find yourself getting off the tube at the Underground stop of Liverpool Street then you just might fin one of the most amazing places on earth, Spitalfields right next to Whitechapel. Although it really isn't all that amazing, but if you are into street are it is like a modern museum on the city streets. Around each and every corner you can find artist work ranging from Banksy to Roa and much, much more.


( Roa's Heron Tower
This is just one of the many large scale works scattered throughout the city. Many can be found on Old Street, Hackney and even Brick Lane, where you can get the best bagels. this small part of town is such a hub of contemporary art that on your way up towards White chapel you go right past a white sculpture of a goat. Which was done by Kenny Hunter in January 2011.



Here are someother works done throughout the street some i could not find the name of the artist who did them but i remember seeing them while walking to my friends flat in Spitalfeilds.
         Many well know artist tend to have works found here in Spitalfields.

Allison Torneros

Allison Torneros
             From her website biography, "I'm a 75 year old woman living in a 20-something's body. Bay area bred, LA-based. I also go by the name HUEMAN. I've been a web designer, dancer, actress, branding consultant, but have never felt a stronger connection to anything like I do with the grittiness of splattered paint. I'm small, love life--but yet seem to hate everything at the same time, and my hands stay dirty. I do what I want!" I find that this is the best way to show the artist personality, through her own words, but to divulge. Allison Torneros has lived in California her whole life growing up in the Bay Area, and now living and working in LA. She when to school at UCLA where she got her Bachelors Degree in Design and Media Arts. She has held many jobs and work with web design at a young age.

       
( above top, The infection 1, watercolor and acrylic on canvas; second from top, Lotus Blossom, watercolor and sharpie on paper; bottom left, Shark Week, acrylic on canvas; bottom left, Allison Torneros. Was unable to get any measurements for works.) http://allisontorneros.com/

Her method of painting is through splatter painting and then coming back to the work after the paint has dried to see what images can be pulled from the paint. Her method is like a more developed Jackson Pollock style and technique. She is a mixed media painter and graphic designer, in which she creates hybrid works driven by fast images and the online community. By being influenced by the fast paced Internet community she has become a new style pop-art, but does not focus on the consumer items like Andy Warhol did. In her style of pop art she focuses on what things, images, television shows, and other media items that people are talking about on social sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.

In her most recent works,  she elegantly rendered images that poke through dreamy atmospheres of fluid elemental clouds and colors. Through doing this she tantalizes the viewers subconscious and relates to a younger age bracket through striking iconic illustrations. Torneros is inspired by nature, by psychology, and by dreams, which is evident in her executions of her works. To quote from her own website, "She goes with the feeling, conveying the kind of impressions that linger on the mind in the wake of sensual experience."

Keelan McMorrow

Keelan McMorrow
       Artist Keelan McMorrow is an American Artist from the Midwest, specifically Illinois. His approach to painting is contemporary realism with a geometric mix, which is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Writght’s stained glass. Growing up he had trouble deciding on whether to pursue a path of art or science. This confliction began in his childhood where he went around exploring for animals and other creatures and drawing them in his sketchbook. Through his tumultuous adolescence which lead him to his "stranded adulthood" he discovered that art was the one thing in his life he could exceed at and be in control of.

    

   

(Above left, Consumer Shark, acrylic and collage on panel, 50x40cm; Above right, The Truth Hurts, acrylic on panel, 76x101 cm; Bottom left, the artist himself Keelan McMorrow; Bottom right, Entanglement, acrylic on panel, 91x91cm.)http://www.keelanmcmorrow.com/index.php?option=com_expose&Itemid=34 .

Many of his works carry a political undertone and are full of symbolism. An example of this can be found in his piece "Consumer Shark" which was painted in acrylic and collage on panel. This work illustrates how American consumerism is similar to a hungry predator, this case a shark, to show the ferocity of a peoples need to buy. In the three works shown above the similarities that they carry is that they have a static background made of geometric patterns and a dynamic gesture movement of the subject in the foreground, usually a person. By combining these two contrasting techniques the subject in the foreground pops out and gives them a sense of movement, almost like dancing. Also the use of soften colors and lines in the work help enhance the realism of the human or animal subjects. His understanding of human and animal subjects could be accredited to his knowledge of science.

 I chose Keelan McMorrow because his painting techniques are very dynamic and highly influential on my own work, since we have similar backgrounds of art and science. One of my favorite quotes from him is "Growing up, I was always the artistic kid in class. I also loved science, fossils, and zoological studies; crawling in the mud after tiny things that were crawling in the mud. I was surrounded by books and always had a load of them with me wherever I went, along with the requisite sketchbook." This quote is exactly how I was when I was a child. He also states how he had dreams of becoming an, "artist, paleontologist, historian, herpetologist, astronomer, archaeologist, author, inventor, explorer, and superhero."  So not only are our techniques and styles similar but also our mindset during our childhood.