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Mushroom Botanical Art

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Mushroom Botanical Art is a stunning, extensive collection of mushroom and fungi illustrations from the 18th and 19th centuries. The chapters are selected from different historical books of mycology from the 18th - 20th centuries and from several disparate geographical areas in Asia, Europe, and the New World. Each botanical illustrator is introduced, we're given an overview of their work and their contribution to mycology, as well as which mediums they have worked in.

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I docked half a star as I had been under the impression that all of the artwork in this book would be in color, ". The illustrations are carefully curated, featuring artists from different time priods from all over the world. This book is a collection of mushroom and fungi paintings by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century. Each elaborate bio-sculpture requires hours of precise cutting and layering of paper, resulting in a fascinating labyrinth of hypnotic white shapes. If you are looking for more fungi and mushroom drawings check out my collection of antique botanical posters of Adolphe Millot.For example, you may find yourself interested in a particularly fascinating-looking mushroom; say the purple and green topped-russula heterophylla found within the "Illustrated Catalog of the Most Common Edible Mushrooms and Confusing Poisonous Mushrooms in Italy" section.

botanical and landscape artist | Cornwall Peter Thwaites | botanical and landscape artist | Cornwall

If you're intrigued by the excerpt above, or if you're a fan of art in general, you won't regret checking out this book when it comes out in November!

Unlike most other coprinoid mushrooms,these do not dissolve into black ink ( deliquesce) in maturity. These illustrations have an almost meditative effect on me - they make for great art references, and I plan to use them for background inspiration for my next drawings. Like nature documentaries, it reminds me how big this planet is, and all the amazing things that are just outside our doors.

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But although my approach involves careful observation and detailed ‘scientific' preparatory drawings, these are always superseded by the work of the imagination; everything has to be refracted through the prism of the imagination, estranged and in some way transformed. His brother Ferdinand traveled with botanists and explorers to map and record the natural flora and fauna of Greece and Australia.Most of the chapters reference European mycologists, but later chapters focus on the fungi found in Japan. As interest in botanical publications increased, the role of botanical illustrator came to be considered a respected profession. Franz worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew for over 50 years and was later employed as “Botanick Painter to his Majesty. I don't know much about mushrooms so I'm sure some was lost on me but I still enjoyed looking through it. This would make a nice selection for public library acquisition, for gardeners, gardening groups, smallholders, and lovers of botanical art.

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