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Botanical Illustration

Leisure time for collecting and recording plants of rarity and beauty ... Recalls Dutch Painting. Also reduced to flat geometric forms defined ...

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Botanical Illustration

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    Slide 1:Botanical Illustration

    Life Captured on Paper Elaine Yau CS99D

    Slide 2:Problems In Botanical Illustration

    Early Botanicals, or Herbals Grete Herbal, 1526 Reused Woodblocks Crude and clumsy illustrations Text-based

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    Slide 4:Problems In Botanical Illustration

    Specific or Generic? Otto Brunfels Herbarum Vivae Eicones, 1530-35 Specificity & Realism Little distortion Good news: people are starting to look at real plants!

    Slide 5:Problems In Botanical Illustration

    Specific or Generic? Leonhart Fuchs De Historia Stirpium, 1542 Idealized plant All parts and seasonal changes depicted on same plant True to the real, live thing

    Slide 6:Whats Wrong?

    Slide 7:Whats Wrong?

    Hawthorn, 1583 Woodcut, Fuchs style Distorted Cropped trunk Horizontally compressed Limitations of medium

    Slide 8:Dutch and Flemish Paintings

    Era of Exploration 1500s-1600s Discovery of new species Hybridization, collecting New Wealth Leisure time for collecting and recording plants of rarity and beauty Commissioning extravagant bouquets

    Slide 9:Dutch and Flemish Paintings

    Jan Davidsz. De Heem Vase of Flowers, c.1660

    Slide 10:Dutch and Flemish Paintings

    Slide 11:Dutch and Flemish Paintings

    Slide 12:Dutch and Flemish Paintings

    Rachel Ruysch Still Life with Snake, c.1685

    Slide 13:Florigelia

    Flower Books Singular Beauty of the flower Decorative Pattern books for applied arts Georg Dionysius Ehrets Parrot Tulip, 1744

    Slide 14:Florigelia

    Pierre-Joseph Redout Opium Poppy, 1827 Stippled engraving Softness, light, and shadow

    Slide 15:Horticultural Illustration

    Directed to the hobbyist, gardener, and florist Focus on Color Appeared in ads and seed packets Recalls Dutch Painting Also reduced to flat geometric forms defined by color More aesthetic than scientific

    Slide 16:Carl Linnaeus

    Formalized classification system Based on reproductive parts Flowers, Fruits, Leaves Hortus Cliffortianus, 1738 Illustrations complement text

    Slide 17:Linnaean Method

    Selective Illustration Unlike Brunfels or Fuchs

    Slide 18:What about photography?

    Slide 19:Photographs & Real life Images

    Field Guide

    Slide 20:Photographs & Real life Images

    Nature Print

    Slide 21:Photographs & Real life Images

    Cyanotype

    Slide 22:Whats the best way?

    Specific vs. general

    Slide 23:Whats the best way?

    Specific vs. general Flawed vs. idealized

    Slide 24:Whats the best way?

    Specific vs. general Flawed vs. idealized Whole vs. partial

    Slide 25:Whats the best way?

    Specific vs. general Flawed vs. idealized Whole vs. partial Real Life vs. Illustration

    Slide 27:The End

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