My interest in Christopher Marley's artwork has grown from discovering his Pheromone collection. This book incorporates images of a range of natural forms such as insects, fossils, crystals and feathers. Christopher Marley’s graceful arrangements of arthropods make converts of those who seen insects as creepy. For the past fifteen years, he has collected and arranged these specimens by hand. These elements create an environment where the specimens can tell their own story and looks like they are combined to bring harmony. Each insect or object is repeated and are laid out symmetrically where he studies them in colour, scale and vibrating patterns.
I haven’t always loved bugs, but his book, Pheromone, highlights the colourful and complexity of bugs in a way that is structural, architectural and clean, so that its accessible for everyone even the ones who are horrified of insects.
Not many fine artists have insects as their main theme. However, I have looked back in time and found a number of artists whose work in this area are inspirational such as Christopher Marley.
Albrecht Durer was born in the fifteenth century, in the city of Nuremberg, Germany. From a young age, he was taught to draw by his father who was a goldsmith. Although Durer became one of the greatest oil painters of the Northern Renaissance, he was equally famous for his watercolours, engravings and woodcut prints.
During the latter part of the fifteenth century, the nature (animals and plants) was becoming a focus of scientific and cultural interest, as explorers or travellers returning from distant lands brought illustrations of new species. So here is when Durer began sharing his view or ideas for the subject, which he revealed in many of his drawings, water...
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... of his work portrays animals, usually in natural surroundings. His work is characterized by bright primary colours and he simplifies his works into geometric shapes which made the subject well with its background. Marc represents animal as the innocent creatures of the world and this is created by the use of bold and bright colours. His well known works include Tierschicksale (Fate of the Animals) and Die Groben Blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses).
From researching this artist I love, his sense of exploration, of spirituality and the pureness he is seen in animals. Franz Marc was an artist, who gave more importance to his emotions and the nature he could bring to life within his paintings. In my opinion, I believe and feel that his work and what he was trying to achieve may affect a number of artists in the painting industry as well as others around the world.
Under the microscope of Ewen’s theory, A Bug’s Life changes from an everyday kid movie to a film riddled with identity issues. The first connection between A Bug’s Life and The Chosen People occurs when Ewen is explaining the rise of industrialism in the United States. He asserts that “For those laboring in many of the factories, industrial conditions systematically trampled upon their individuality and personhood” and that “artisan craft and small-scale manufacturer fell to an emerging economy of larger scale.” (187)
The Horse is represented in full profile as to show off it’s perfect proportions; it is forcefully modeled so as to give its perfect anatomy and it moves with regulated step of the riding school so as to give demonstration of perfect rhythm. The fact that a beautiful setter is running by the side of the horse completes the picture of the Christian man as known to the Late Middle Ages – the man who armed with faith and accompanied by religious zeal, symbolized by the faithful hound goes on his way along the narrow path of earthly life menaced by Death and the Devil.
Tenenbaum uses testimonials of people on the idea of eating insects to prove insects help increase the scarce amount of food in the world. They served one group fried bee larvae and “they think, ‘this tastes really good, familiar.’” If people’s views on insects start to shift, then more insects would be considered an edible dinner. It would help our world ecologically by limiting the use of butchering animals. It also uses a worldwide known book, “in the Bible,
Insects may be the bane of some people’s existence, but the creatures are truly strong globes of energy, going about their lives, flitting to and fro. Thoreau and Woolf both captured this essential spirit in their writing. In “Battle of the Ants” and “The Death of the Moth,” both writers observe other life forms, but the way in which they perceive the insects struggles vastly differs. According to an online biography, Thoreau’s exposure to transcendentalism as well as his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson both shaped his writing to emphasize “the importance of empirical thinking and of spiritual matters over the physical world,” whereas Virginia Woolf’s parents raised her to be free thinking which resulted
The word “Bug” has connotation of something unimportant, fragile, and small. In addition, since the Torrance family is essentially “inside” this bug, King furthers their connection to this “bug” by portraying them as physically a part of it.
Insects are a vital part of our earth’s ecology. They play various roles as pollinators and as food sources for other animals, without them our food would be drastically reduced. Due to the high amounts of species from the order Insecta, there are key taxonomic features used to classify different specimens from each other.
In the next essay, "On societies as organisms," Thomas points out that the writers of books on insect behavior go to great lengths to distinguish the uniqueness of insect life.
From the beginning, the researchers’ crowd is described as a mass of insects, “[swarming]” and creating a “vibrating, ionic movement” (232). The use of visual and kinetic imagery ingeniously inspires the readers and immediately sets up the principal analogy of humans acting like social insects in an organism. Likewise, the “blackening” of the soil by “[fumbling] and [shoving]” ants as they collaboratively build the nest enhances the text by increasing the reader’s interest (233). Moreover, the termite nest’s “architecture” may impress some readers, as the enthusiastic author glorifies the “artists” that erect “beautiful, curving, symmetrical arches” of the nest (234). The comparison of mankind with insects then seems obvious (or acceptable for unwilling readers), since similes successfully picture appealing images in our brain of the organism’s impressive effectiveness.
Examining the formal qualities of Homer Watson’s painting Horse and Rider In A Landscape was quite interesting. I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because it was the piece I liked the least, therefore making me analyze it more closely and discover other aspects of the work, besides aesthetics.
Rubens personified one of the most creative, skilled, and successful western artists, and his almost measureless resourcefulness of design enabled him to become a master of the finest studio establishment in Europe. As one French Romantic Artist describes Peter Paul Rubens as one who “carries one beyond the limit scarcely attained by the most eminent painters; he dominates one, he overpowers one, with all his liberty and boldness.”
Eliot and Kafka use images of insects as well, although for different purposes. Eliot’s use of insects portrays Prufrock as being an insect “pinned and wriggling on the wall” being observed as an object of study (l.58). This is indicative of Prufrock’s anxiety and neurosis as he feels judged by everyone he meets, especially the women. Kafka’s use of insect imagery is prevalent throughout the entire novella, as Samsa has transformed into a giant bug.
It can be seen in Chagall’s composition the application of these movements principles of arbitrary colour and reorganization of the visual field, but he incorporates these principles with a dream like scape to create his own personal style.
Today pollination is a common everyday occurrence and no one thinks twice about how and why it happens. However, two centuries back very little people understood insect pollination because the showy flower petals were said to be the Creator’s way of pleasing his people (Waldbauer, 2003). It was not until 1793 that Conrad Sprengel first explained that the colorful flowers are the means of attracting insects for pollination (Waldbauer, 2003). Sprengel’s understanding of insect pollination came from his own understanding o...
Quinn, M., & Klym, M. (2009). An Introduction to Butterfly Watching. Austin, Texas: Texas State Publications Clearinghouse.
I find ants to be such a unique insect because of the fact that they can pick 50 times their own body weight, not even the buffest men can do that. Also for each human there are about 1.5 million ants which mean their reproducing system is very high and fast. Ants provide a huge amou...