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Botanical Illustration Life Captured on Paper Elaine Yau CS99D
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Problems In Botanical Illustration Early Botanicals, or Herbals Grete Herbal, 1526 Reused Woodblocks Crude and clumsy illustrations Text-based
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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!
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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
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Whats Wrong?
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Hawthorn, 1583 Woodcut, Fuchs style Distorted Cropped trunk Horizontally compressed Limitations of medium
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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
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Dutch and Flemish Paintings Jan Davidsz. De Heem Vase of Flowers, c.1660
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Dutch and Flemish Paintings
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Rachel Ruysch Still Life with Snake, c.1685
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Florigelia Flower Books Singular Beauty of the flower Decorative Pattern books for applied arts Georg Dionysius Ehrets Parrot Tulip, 1744
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Florigelia Pierre-Joseph Redouté Opium Poppy, 1827 Stippled engraving Softness, light, and shadow
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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
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Carl Linnaeus Formalized classification system Based on reproductive parts Flowers, Fruits, Leaves Hortus Cliffortianus, 1738 Illustrations complement text
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Linnaean Method Selective Illustration Unlike Brunfels or Fuchs
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What about photography?
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Photographs & Real life Images Field Guide
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Photographs & Real life Images Nature Print
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Photographs & Real life Images Cyanotype
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Whats the best way? Specific vs. general
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Whats the best way? Specific vs. general Flawed vs. idealized
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Whats the best way? Specific vs. general Flawed vs. idealized Whole vs. partial
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Whats the best way? Specific vs. general Flawed vs. idealized Whole vs. partial Real Life vs. Illustration
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