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