Denise Ramsay

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5 responses to “Denise Ramsay”

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   Sherrill

   August 3, 2018

   Great attention to detail! Love the vibrant colors and having the white background so you can just focus on the shapes, negative spaces and the way it was rendered.
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      Charley Parker

      August 5, 2018

      Thanks, Sherrill. Yes, there is a nicely contemplative aspect to the isolation of plants in botanical art, a singularity of focus.
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   Ælle

   August 4, 2018

   Illustration #7 = Pak choi, or bok choy, also called pe-tsai, petsay, Chinese white cabbage, and white celery mustard

   As someone truthfully put forward, “Beautiful People these Botanical Artists”.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imOm5eIMXSM

   Thanks to you, Charley!
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   Ælle

   August 4, 2018

   “ART IS THE ATTENTION WE PAY TO THE WHOLENESS OF THE WORLD.”
   ~ GUY DAVENPORT

   The earliest portrayals of plants and trees were found in Mesopotamia and Egypt about four thousand years ago, where highly developed agricultural civilizations included images of plants and other
   motifs on the walls of their temples and tombs.

   Later, in Cretan, Greek and Roman art, figures of plants and trees were often used to decorate ceramics or coins with various degrees of realism. Aristotle (384-322 BC) and his pupil Theophrastus (c.370-285 BC) were the first to study the medicinal properties of plants systematically. Although no manuscripts of classical times have survived, we know that they existed because Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79AD), himself an important recorder of botanic material, mentions colored illustrations in herbals. Pliny refers to Krateuas in particular, a Greek physician of the first century BC, who is widely considered to be the father of botanical illustration.
   Source: https://www.asba-art.org/
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      Charley Parker

      August 5, 2018

      Thanks for the background info, Ælle. Yes, that’s a noticeable difference from the prehistoric cave paintings that focused on animal images.