Merian's metamorphoses: Nurtured from an early age in the art of still-life painting and naturalistic illustration, the courageous seventeenth-century artist Maria Sibylla Merian allied her vision and her skills to convey the complex life-cycles of insects
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Maria Sibylla Merian was a seventeenth-century artist who also documented the metamorphosis of exotic butterflies and moths in Surinam, providing a new vision of the life-cycles of insects. She portrayed the eggs, larvae, chrysalises and mature insects in communion with the plant on which they feed. She depicted the life-cycle of the moth Arsenura armida, interwoven with the Palisade tree as a type of living tapestry.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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A measured approach: Alex Colville's exhaustive search for mathematical probity
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Alex Colville can be considered as the best Canadian artists of his time as he performs his work of drawing geometrical structures with meditative persistence and his art highlights his search for order from apparent inorder. Through his art, Colville attempts to enroll his audience into his pictures that depict the quite narratives of the apparently ordinary.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Consulting nature's pattern-book
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Peter Randall-Page has established himself as a sculptor who has deployed the geometry of natural growth. His massive granite sculpture 'Seed' for the Eden Project, an environmental centre in Cornwall, U.K., has emulated the natural form.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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