The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was built gradually—building on top of building—over time. Without a single architect, the ungoverned and most densely populated district became a haven for drugs, crime and prostitution until it was demolished in 1993. Photo documentation of the site exists but for the most part much of the inner-workings of the city remained a mystery. Perhaps due to its proximity, Japan, in particular, developed a keen interest towards Kowloon. Its demolition in 1993 was broadcast on national television. More
Robert Heinecken, Fractured figure sections (1967)
Cristina Troufa talks to The Arty Teacher about her work and themes and gives advice to art students who are inspired by ther work.
Many people see art as something with many barriers to entry – maybe the materials are expensive, maybe you don't have the space, or maybe you think it's difficult, requiring many specialized tools. Sometimes that's true, but the artists here have created incredible works using almost nothing but paper and scissors or knives.
The Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, is an Arabic manuscript dating mainly from the late 14th century A.D. and probably bound together in Baghdad during the reign of Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad (1382-1410). The manuscript is made up of astrological, astronomical and geomantic texts compiled by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani, as well as a dedicated section of full-page illustrations, with each plate titled with 'A discourse on....', followed by the subject of the discourse (a folktale, a sign of the zodiac, a prophet, etc.). Housed at: Wikimedia Commons | From: Oxford Digital Library Underlying Work: PD Worldwide | Digital Copy: PD
Most art pieces don't say sit on me. Most don't say touch me, squeeze me, roll up in a ball and tumble around in me.
Rebecca Stevenson - I find myself conflicted when looking at the work of Rebecca Stevenson because I simultaneously want to look and turn away from her masterpieces. T...
Художник Светлана Дорошева создает иллюстрации для журналов и рекламных макетов. А еще просто для души рисует милых персонажей. В серии рисунков My Childhood ей удивительно точно удалось передать…
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Surrealistic Fine Art by Piia Lehti, artiste Finlande
french digital artist isabelle dalle has realized a series of digital anatomical portraits, influenced by the traditional art of medical journals.
This eye catching black and white watercolor print was inspired by the need to just breathe after an exhausting time. It’s a striking view of a woman with her head to the sky, taking in a deep breath and shows the anatomy of the throat, including the thyroid cartilage, cricoid cartilage and trachea. It also shows the c
Paper artist Lisa Nilsson recently completed a number of new anatomical pieces using her profoundly incredible skill with quilling, a tedious process where paper is tightly wound into small rolls and then assembled into larger artworks. The natural formation of the paper coupled with Nilsson’s ability to identify the precise materials to mimic organic structures makes each artwork appear uncannily like actual cross-sections of humans and animals. The artist has a number of new works currently on display at the Boston Art Gallery as part of the exhibition Teaching the Body: Artistic Anatomy in the American Academy through March 31, 2013. More
I'm currently reading a book about the early Christian church and came across this amazing section about the Christian Catacombs: "It is well known that
An artist that never travels without a sketchpad, pens and pencils. Italian Artist Giuliana Flavia Cangelosi describes herself as: "Student of Computational Design, Architectural Illustrator,Professional travel sketch and Art Director". I have divided the drawings in this post, in two main sections: black drawings on a white background and white drawings on a black background. I prefer the second one, even though they have less detailing in some of the cases. They are both black and white sketches but, look at the differences, the clarity and extra contrast of the drawing, that is what I really love about them. What do you think? Art from 2018. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral of Florence. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Draw often and everything you see. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Arch of Constantine, Rome. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Brunelleschi’s Dome. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Catania. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Piazza del Popolo - Ascoli Piceno. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Mary Almsgiving. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Basilica Mary Almsgiving in Catania. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Roma. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Cathedral of Palermo. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Loreto. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Trevi Fountain Rome. Press the Image to Enlarge it.
Taking nearly two years to complete, artist and neuroscientist Dr. Greg Dunn, along with his collaborator Dr. Brian Edwards, have mapped the neurons in the brain for a series of images titled Self Reflected. Produced through a technique they call reflective microetching, the two cross-disciplinary artists track the neural choreography in the mind, creating brilliant images that glow with a metallic luminescence. The works depict a thin slice of the human brain at 22x the normal scale, each created through a combination of hand drawing, neuroscientific data, algorithmic simulation of neural circuitry, photolithography, strategic lighting design, and 1,750 sheets of 22k gold leaf. More
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L'artiste Francesco Ciccolella illustre les problèmes du monde avec subtilité et minimalisme, notamment pour la Une de grands médias internationaux.
The incomparable Michael Sappol--author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies, curator of Dream Anatomy, and historian at the National Library of Medicine--recently traveled to Sweden where he encountered the curious 15th century illuminated vellum scroll seen above. In the following post, Mike tells us more about this scroll, and its idiosyncratic anatomical visualizations: I recently traveled to sunny Sweden to participate in an international conference on “The History of Medicine in Practice.” Along the way I got to visit some historical medical collections, talk to historians, curators, archivists, rare book specialists, publishers and librarians, and see amazing objects. Today’s post is about one amazing object: De Arte Phisicali et de Cirurgica (The Art of the Physician and the Surgeon), a long vellum scroll — 542 cm (17 feet 9 inches) by 36 cm (1 foot 2 inches)! It dates from the year 1412 and resides today in the National Library of Sweden (in Swedish, Kungliga Biblioteket, “The Royal Library,” but since Swedes hold their egalitarian ideals very dear, usually translated as “The National Library”). The manuscript is composed of six skins of vellum (that’s calf-skin!) sewn together. It features numerous painted color illustrations, along with a text written by John Arderne (1307-ca. 1390), a master surgeon who lived in Newark in the county of Nottingham, England. How it got to Sweden is a bit of a mystery, but experts believe that it traveled over the North Sea sometime in the 1420s, sent by King Henry IV of England to help his daughter, Princess Philippa. She had been married off to King Erik of Sweden in 1406 at the tender age of 12 (and died in 1430 at age 34 of a miscarriage). The text (in Latin) contains standard medical wisdom of its time: advice on diagnosis and how to treat various conditions in the form of a discussion of cases, along with helpful recipes. (A knowledge of astrology helps with all of this.) The scroll is also supplied with a large number of good-natured, even comical, illustrations. Mostly they show the usual diseases and problems (dysentery, dropsy, colic, pleurisy, belching, insomnia, bellyache) and the usual therapeutic methods (bleeding, cautery, purging and plastering). There are also pictures of surgical instruments, poisonous animals (watch out for toads!) and typical problems of delivering a baby. What has attracted the most attention from scholars, and even the public, are the scroll’s painted illustrations of the anatomized body, split open like a book or a butchered animal. These occupy the middle of the scroll, between the two main columns of text (which makes no comment on them), and are very rare for the period, really quite astonishing. I know all this because of a fine book recently published on the Arderne scroll by Fri Tanke Förlag (Free Thought Press) and the Hagströmer Library, as part of their bibliographic publication series: John Arderne, De Arte Phisicali et de Cirurgia, trans., commentary, Torgny Svenberg and Peter Murray Jones; afterword, Eva LQ Sandgren (Stockholm: Fri Tanke Förlag – Hagströmer Biblioteket, 2014). Michael Sappol History of Medicine Division National Library of Medicine All images from De Arte Phisicali et de Cirurgica (The Art of the Physician and the Surgeon), courtesy of the National Library of Sweden
Artist finds the technique 'exquisitely satisfying'
“Lisa Nilsson, 'Tissue Series' depicting anatomical cross sections, created from rolled Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books #WomensArt”
