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The plants or useful parts of plants are illustrated. Cheng Yaotian (1736-1796) observed plants in nature and cultivated them. The drawings accompanying his text resemble herbarium specimens, emphasizing flower and fruit details. Wu Qijun (1789-1847)'s Illustrated Catalogues of Plants (1848) also relied on direct observation of plants in nature.
Animal-made art consists of works by non-human animals, that have been considered by humans to be artistic, including visual works, music, photography, and videography. Some of these are created naturally by animals, often as courtship displays , while others are created with human involvement.
Botanical illustrators paint or draw plants and sometimes their natural environment as well, forming a lineage where art and science meet. Some prefer to paint isolated specimen flowers while others prefer arrangements. Many botanical artists through the centuries have been active in collecting and cataloguing new species and/or in breeding plants.
Plant spirals can be seen in phyllotaxis, the arrangement of leaves on a stem, and in the arrangement (parastichy [53]) of other parts as in composite flower heads and seed heads like the sunflower or fruit structures like the pineapple [15] [54]: 337 and snake fruit, as well as in the pattern of scales in pine cones, where multiple spirals run ...
The garden is teeming with male and female nudes, together with various animals, plants, and fruits. [27] The setting is not the paradise shown in the left panel, nor is it based in the terrestrial realm. [28] Fantastic creatures mingle with the real; otherwise ordinary fruits appear engorged to a gigantic size.
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
Olly and Suzi's art style is different from what humans are taught to appreciate as visual art. It is messy, undefined and leaves the subject unframed. [ 14 ] It is a celebration of wildness and authenticity, which captures the animal, its environment, and the emotions invoked in Olly and Suzi upon witnessing the animal.
Composite art depicts a figure composed in whole or part of different creatures, including human beings, animals, birds, reptiles, insects, or dinosaurs such as Brontosaurus. [3] The origin of the style is unknown and debated by scholars. [4] Composite art has a history in two prominent traditions – Hindu and Mughal.