A brief list of art I'm missing to be considered the following type of artist:
Scientific Illustrator
-Cut away view of fish or of the Earth's crust with little labels
-Skeletal outline for clarity
-Heavily airbrushed, smooth view of pink & blue lungs
-Colourful landscape of organisms that would normally be hiding from each other
Pseudo-scientific Illustrator
-pulsating food morsel/medicine/sport drink going down gridded simplified human body to pulsate stronger in stomach
-simple diagram of human body with labels of animal names or words like "virtue" and "3rd eye"
-elegant watercolours of St. John's Wort and echinacea
-illustration with pyramids and lots of glittery silver
Paleo-Fantasy/SF Illustrator
-Leopard-bikini wearing woman riding mutant theropod with horns
-Innocent waif girl with clunky robot friend
-Herbivore & carnivore dinosaurs looking up in shock at UFO
-Blue shadowy background with PVC-wearing woman carrying two ridiculously huge and complicated guns
Fine Artist
-Object made from my own body or my trash
-Mash-up of multiple impermanent materials: painting on a cake left to go moldy and filmed for YouTube
-Painting "referencing" another artist's work, while allegedly subverting it
-Painting something vague that could be better explained in an op-ed column
Where do I fit, categorically? At ScienceOnline09, I used 5 categories about science-art that differ from these.
Art in awe of science sums it up enough.
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6 comments:
*splorfles*
Drhoz,
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Inconceivable. *shakes head*
Huh.
Maybe I haven't drawn enough bikini filling. Maybe that's the problem.
"Painting something vague that could be better explained in an op-ed column"
*snorts*
Hahahaha...I think I'd want to do the bikini babe with the mutant dinosaur and the two dumbstruck dinos looking up at the meteor!
Zach,
It reminds me of when I had to get my portfolio ready to apply for the fine art program. I needed to have some life drawings, a bowl of fruit, a landscape...the rest was filled with Celtic and Japanese mythology. But I had to have those few "art" pieces to show credibility.
The bikini cavewoman and mutant theropod are the same in some ways. :-)
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