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Zan examines a hyperrealistic, large-scale sculpture of a woman at the Gallery of Modern Art. In Bed, by Ron Mueck (2005).
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African Lions
Considered the most social of cats, lions live in prides that consist of one or more males, several females, and cubs. While a male lion consumes an average of 5,500 pounds of meat a year—mostly wildebeest, zebra, and antelopes—females do most of the actual hunting.
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the museum complex contains 27 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.
The museum collections contain over 32 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time, and occupies 1,600,000 square feet (150,000 m2).
The Museum has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.
The Museum was founded in 1869.
Akeley Hall of African Mammals
Since its opening in 1936, the Akeley Hall has been considered by many to be one of the world's greatest museum displays. The hall is named after Carl Akeley (1864–1926), the explorer, conservationist, taxidermist, sculptor and photographer who conceived of, designed and created the hall. Akeley led teams of scientists and artists on three expeditions to Africa during the first two decades of the 20th century, wherein he and his colleagues carefully studied, catalogued, and collected the plants and animals that even then were disappearing. He brought many specimens from the expeditions back to the Museum, and used them to create the hall, with its twenty-eight dioramas.
The dioramas do not simply evoke the sites that Akeley visited—they replicate specific animals in specific geographic locations at a specific time. In creating these works, Akeley forever changed the practice of taxidermy—the stuffing and mounting of the skins of animals. Until then animal skins had been stuffed with straw or wood shavings. Akeley, however, began by re-creating the animal's shape with an armature made of wood, wire, and sometimes parts of the actual skeleton. He then used clay to add on each muscle, tendon, and vein. When this work was complete, he made a cast of it, and fit the animal's skin over the cast. This meticulous attention to veracity—which was applied not merely to the taxidermic mounts but the plants, background paintings and even the light in the dioramas—resulted in fastidiously realistic, vivid reproductions of the world that Akeley wanted to preserve.
The enormous hall showcases the vanishing wildlife of Africa, in spaces where the human presence is notably absent, and includes hyperrealistic depictions of elephants, hippopotamuses, lions, gorillas, zebras, and various species of antelope. Some of the displays are up to 18 feet (5 m) in height and 23 feet (7 m) in depth.
During Akeley's final expedition, he fell ill and died. He was buried in Albert National Park (now Virunga National Park), the first wildlife sanctuary in central Africa, which he had helped to establish. The mountain location of his grave is near the scene depicted in the gorilla diorama in this hall.
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Giant Sable.
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the museum complex contains 27 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.
The museum collections contain over 32 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time, and occupies 1,600,000 square feet (150,000 m2).
The Museum has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.
The Museum was founded in 1869.
Akeley Hall of African Mammals
Since its opening in 1936, the Akeley Hall has been considered by many to be one of the world's greatest museum displays. The hall is named after Carl Akeley (1864–1926), the explorer, conservationist, taxidermist, sculptor and photographer who conceived of, designed and created the hall. Akeley led teams of scientists and artists on three expeditions to Africa during the first two decades of the 20th century, wherein he and his colleagues carefully studied, catalogued, and collected the plants and animals that even then were disappearing. He brought many specimens from the expeditions back to the Museum, and used them to create the hall, with its twenty-eight dioramas.
The dioramas do not simply evoke the sites that Akeley visited—they replicate specific animals in specific geographic locations at a specific time. In creating these works, Akeley forever changed the practice of taxidermy—the stuffing and mounting of the skins of animals. Until then animal skins had been stuffed with straw or wood shavings. Akeley, however, began by re-creating the animal's shape with an armature made of wood, wire, and sometimes parts of the actual skeleton. He then used clay to add on each muscle, tendon, and vein. When this work was complete, he made a cast of it, and fit the animal's skin over the cast. This meticulous attention to veracity—which was applied not merely to the taxidermic mounts but the plants, background paintings and even the light in the dioramas—resulted in fastidiously realistic, vivid reproductions of the world that Akeley wanted to preserve.
The enormous hall showcases the vanishing wildlife of Africa, in spaces where the human presence is notably absent, and includes hyperrealistic depictions of elephants, hippopotamuses, lions, gorillas, zebras, and various species of antelope. Some of the displays are up to 18 feet (5 m) in height and 23 feet (7 m) in depth.
During Akeley's final expedition, he fell ill and died. He was buried in Albert National Park (now Virunga National Park), the first wildlife sanctuary in central Africa, which he had helped to establish. The mountain location of his grave is near the scene depicted in the gorilla diorama in this hall.
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Steampunk hockey player, Wayne Gretzky
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Steampunk Mad Hatter
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Beautiful Queen; insanely detailed and intricate dress with feathers, beautiful face, roses, mysterious, nightmarish eldritch magic spells, highly intricate, hyperrealism, delicate detailed complex, vibrant colors, by Michelangelo
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American Museum of Natural History, 79 Street & Central Park West, NYC
by navema
Akeley Hall of African Mammals
Since its opening in 1936, the Akeley Hall of African Mammals has been considered one of the world's greatest museum displays. The hall is named after Carl Akeley (1864-1926), the explorer, conservationist, taxidermist, sculptor, and photographer who conceived of, designed, and collected for the hall. All the mammal dioramas in the Museum were created using his highly refined taxidermy and mounting techniques. The animals have been reconstructed with such scientific accuracy and detail that they appear astoundingly lifelike. Akeley's meticulous attention to veracity, which was applied to the plants, the painted backgrounds, and even the lighting in the dioramas, resulted in faithful and vivid reproductions of the worlds that he wanted to preserve.
The 28 dioramas in this hall, true works of art, depict some of the many animals and habitats of Africa, from the bongo and mandrill of the dense rain forests to the impala and elephant of the savannah. Carl Akeley had a lifelong devotion to the continent of Africa and the conservation of its beautiful wilderness areas. He traveled there many times, embarking on three expeditions for the Museum. During his final expedition, he fell ill and died. He was buried in Albert National Park (now Virunga National Park), the first wildlife sanctuary in central Africa, which he had helped to establish. The mountain location of his grave is near the scene depicted in the gorilla diorama in this hall.
The Art of the Diorama: Recreating Nature
Renowned naturalists, artists, photographers, taxidermists and other Museum personnel have blended their talents to create the great habitat dioramas which can be found in halls throughout the Museum. Born in an era of black-and-white photography, when wildlife photography was in its earliest stages, the dioramas have themselves become major historic attractions. Notable among them is the Akeley Hall of African Mammals which opened in 1936. The enormous hall showcases the vanishing wildlife of Africa, in spaces where the human presence is notably absent, and includes hyperrealistic depictions of elephants, hippopotamuses, lions, gorillas, zebras, and various species of antelope, including the rarely-seen aquatic sitatunga.
Carl Akeley was an outstanding taxidermist employed at the Field Museum in Chicago when the American Museum of Natural History sent him to Africa to collect elephant hides. Akeley fell in love with the rainforests of Africa and decried the encroachment of farming and civilization into formerly pristine natural habitats. Fearing the permanent loss of these natural areas, Akeley was motivated to educate the American public by creating the hall that bears his name. Akeley died in 1926 from infection while exploring the Kivu Volcanoes in his beloved Belgian Congo, an area near to that depicted by the hall's gorilla diorama.
With the 1942 opening of the Hall of North American Mammals, diorama art reached a pinnacle. It took more than a decade to create the scenes depicted in the hall.
Other notable dioramas, some dating back to the 1930s have been restored in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. The hall is a 29,000 square foot bi-level room that includes a delicately mounted 94 foot long model of a Blue Whale swimming beneath and around video projection screens and interactive computer stations. Among the hall's notable dioramas is the "sperm whale and giant squid", which represents a true melding of art and science since an actual encounter between these two giant creatures at over one half mile depth has never been witnessed.
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The American Museum of Natural History:
Located in the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York, USA, is one of the largest and one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions in the world. Located in park-like grounds, the Museum comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research laboratories, and its renowned library.
The collections contain over 32 million specimens, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The Museum has a scientific staff of more than 200, and sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year.
Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition. The founding of the Museum realized the dream of naturalist Dr. Albert S. Bickmore. Bickmore, a one-time student of Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, lobbied tirelessly for years for the establishment of a natural history museum in New York. His proposal, backed by his powerful sponsors, won the support of the Governor of New York, John Thompson Hoffman, who signed a bill officially creating the American Museum of Natural History on April 6, 1869.
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Beautiful Queen; insanely detailed and intricate dress with feathers, beautiful face, roses, mysterious, nightmarish eldritch magic spells, highly intricate, hyperrealism, delicate detailed complex, vibrant colors, by Michelangelo
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Sean Evans
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As an artist, I am constantly mesmerized by the intricate details and complexities of the world we live in. My primary medium of expression is colored pencils, with secondary mediums including charcoal, graphite, and watercolors - the versatility of these mediums allows me to capture my subjects with immense precision and depth. I like to describe my artistic style as hyperrealistic impressionism, and I strive to create pieces that leave my audience captivated, intrigued, and yearning for more.
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This artist is open to commissions: smevans3@ncsu.edu
Beautiful Queen; insanely detailed and intricate dress with feathers, beautiful face, roses, mysterious, nightmarish eldritch magic spells, highly intricate, hyperrealism, delicate detailed complex, vibrant colors, by Michelangelo
elegant extremely detailed oil on canvas sensuality very attractive beautiful fantastic view hyperrealistic crisp quality Surrealism Pre-Raffaelite
Beautiful Queen; insanely detailed and intricate dress with feathers, beautiful face, roses, mysterious, nightmarish eldritch magic spells, highly intricate, hyperrealism, delicate detailed complex, vibrant colors, by Michelangelo
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I drew the 17x17x17 Over the Top Cube invented by Oskar van Daventer. Full Timelapse Video on Youtube. bit.ly/197Jln0
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АЛЕКСАНДР ГЕРЫМСКИЙ - Еврейка с апельсинами
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Location: The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland.
Sources: cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/454885
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TEXT: LESZEK LUBICKI
During his stay in Warsaw, Alexander Gierymski often used motifs related to the city's life. He was fascinated by such districts as Powiśle, Solec and the Old Town. Thanks to this, we can now see a picture of the world that no longer exists, and has been preserved on Gierymski's canvases and drawings.
Jewish with Oranges as many as 440 days conservation of this painting took place after it was found in 2010, in a small auction house in Germany.
During World War II, it was plundered by the nazis in circumstances not explained to this day. Since the beginning of the war, Germany has stolen the most valuable exhibits from the museums of the conquered countries. However, they did not take this work, they did not consider it worthy of deportation. It was probably only after the Warsaw Uprising that it disappeared in the chaotic transport of works of art carried out by the occupier. The painting popularly called the Oranger thanks to the efforts of the Polish authorities, however, was not sold at auction in the said auction house. His owner explained that she had no idea that the canvas was looted by the nazis. After appropriate negotiations, the painting returned to its place in July 2011, i.e. to the National Museum in Warsaw. It was very damaged, a bit repainted, probably to hide its authenticity. From the end of 2012, after conservation, we can watch it in the 19th Century Art Gallery.
Aleksander Gierymski painted a Jewess with Oranges, painted in 1881. He was never entirely satisfied with his own work, but he assessed this painting as successful and one of his best. In the painter's correspondence we find the following statement: "A Jewess was perhaps the best picture (...). Plastic and colorful diablo. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but if I get back to painting seriously, only large or medium figures will remain for me - nothing from the landscape''.
There are many reasons why this canvas is considered a masterpiece. One of them is definitely "performance virtuosity''. Of course, painting from the realism circle should be a faithful mirror of the world, but the photographic accuracy of the image reaches the limits of hyperrealism, which was hardly seen in contemporary Polish painting. Despite being rooted in Warsaw realities, from the formal point of view the image must be included among the great works (characterized by a passion for hyperrealistic fidelity) of Munich realism. Which is natural considering the fact that Gierymski was educated and mainly active there. The perfection of performance reaches a level almost exclusively to the greatest of Munich realists, Wilhelm Leibl''
Jewess with Oranges was painted in Warsaw. The canvas shows an old Jewish woman holding two wicker baskets in her hands. In one of them colorful oranges are very visible. In the background of the canvas, the artist took a panorama of Skarpa Wiślana, shown behind a light fog from the side of Powiśle. A. Gierymski remarkably showed "the contrast between the richness of fruit colors and the whole range of beige, brown and gray clothing of the Jewish pauper''. The painting is also one of the most important Judaica in the history of Polish painting. During the period when the work was created, Warsaw Jews were an inseparable element of urban folklore and often became heroes of this kind of creativity
Goddess beautiful, brown eyes, glowing skin, long hair, crown, extremely detailed, hyperrealistic, inspired by kehinde wiley and Georgia O’Keeffe, no watermark
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Steampunk "Sherlock Holmes"
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Uffe Isolotto, Denmark Pavilion, 2022 Venice Biennale
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Step into a hyperrealistic world of unexpected drama. Set in a strange hybrid time period where elements from the historical past of Danish farm life blend with unfamiliar phenomena from the sci-fi future of a trans-human world, the drama revolves around a family of three. This is, however, no ordinary family, which is obvious from the moment you enter their home and encounter the inhabitants as you walk through the rooms containing their belongings, food, and working tools. But who is this family, and what has happened to them and the world they live in? This is not so obvious. The whole setting by Uffe Isolotto is haunted by a deep uncertainty. It is impossible to tell whether it is tragic or hopeful. Perhaps it is both? Does the family embody the complex and unsettling experience of going forward in today’s radically changing world? If so, the more general question becomes, do we seek refuge in who we were or do we look for escape routes in what we might become?
Steampunk Stooges
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Steampunk Batman
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digital painting surrealist
...finden hier im Restaurant von Pripjat nicht mehr statt
For friends of computer games: Stalker and Call of Duty 4 are hyperrealistically set in Pripyat, I'm told.
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Chaffinch (Fringilla Coelebs).
A painting in gouache 16 x 12ins 1983.
This highly detailed photorealism style painting formed part of my diploma show when I was a student of wildlife illustration at Dyfed College of Art in Carmarthen Wales. I was 20 years old at the time and the painting is based on a photo I took on holiday in Devon with my parents a few years previous. The original reference photo was taken in a carpark and the Chaffinches were very tame, being attracted to the cars by people throwing them breadcrumbs. Gouache is a type of opaque watercolour and no white paint was used in the picture - all the light areas are white illustration board showing through thin layers of paint.
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Gorilla.
Gorillas may weigh as much as 450 pounds, and large males may measure nearly 6 feet tall when standing. Gorillas have never been observed drinking in the wild. They spend the day feeding on leaves, bark, stems, and fruit, getting the water they need from their moist food.
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the museum complex contains 27 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.
The museum collections contain over 32 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time, and occupies 1,600,000 square feet (150,000 m2).
The Museum has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.
The Museum was founded in 1869.
Akeley Hall of African Mammals
Since its opening in 1936, the Akeley Hall has been considered by many to be one of the world's greatest museum displays. The hall is named after Carl Akeley (1864–1926), the explorer, conservationist, taxidermist, sculptor and photographer who conceived of, designed and created the hall. Akeley led teams of scientists and artists on three expeditions to Africa during the first two decades of the 20th century, wherein he and his colleagues carefully studied, catalogued, and collected the plants and animals that even then were disappearing. He brought many specimens from the expeditions back to the Museum, and used them to create the hall, with its twenty-eight dioramas.
The dioramas do not simply evoke the sites that Akeley visited—they replicate specific animals in specific geographic locations at a specific time. In creating these works, Akeley forever changed the practice of taxidermy—the stuffing and mounting of the skins of animals. Until then animal skins had been stuffed with straw or wood shavings. Akeley, however, began by re-creating the animal's shape with an armature made of wood, wire, and sometimes parts of the actual skeleton. He then used clay to add on each muscle, tendon, and vein. When this work was complete, he made a cast of it, and fit the animal's skin over the cast. This meticulous attention to veracity—which was applied not merely to the taxidermic mounts but the plants, background paintings and even the light in the dioramas—resulted in fastidiously realistic, vivid reproductions of the world that Akeley wanted to preserve.
The enormous hall showcases the vanishing wildlife of Africa, in spaces where the human presence is notably absent, and includes hyperrealistic depictions of elephants, hippopotamuses, lions, gorillas, zebras, and various species of antelope. Some of the displays are up to 18 feet (5 m) in height and 23 feet (7 m) in depth.
During Akeley's final expedition, he fell ill and died. He was buried in Albert National Park (now Virunga National Park), the first wildlife sanctuary in central Africa, which he had helped to establish. The mountain location of his grave is near the scene depicted in the gorilla diorama in this hall.
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American Museum of Natural History, 79 Street & Central Park West, NYC
by navema
The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life:
This hall is home to the Museum's beloved 94-foot-long model of a blue whale, a powerful evocation of the massive yet graceful nature of the largest animal ever to roam the planet. This hall, which displays creatures and environments from across the globe, reopened in May, 2003 after a major renovation project was completed. The 29,000-square-foot hall was transformed through current scientific research and cutting-edge exhibition technology into a fully immersive marine environment with video projection screens and interactive computer stations, all still watched over by the great whale. The extensive renovations provide a rich context for the latest marine research while restoring the classical architectural elegance of this popular hall.
The Art of the Diorama: Recreating Nature
Renowned naturalists, artists, photographers, taxidermists and other Museum personnel have blended their talents to create the great habitat dioramas which can be found in halls throughout the Museum. Born in an era of black-and-white photography, when wildlife photography was in its earliest stages, the dioramas have themselves become major historic attractions. Notable among them is the Akeley Hall of African Mammals which opened in 1936. The enormous hall showcases the vanishing wildlife of Africa, in spaces where the human presence is notably absent, and includes hyperrealistic depictions of elephants, hippopotamuses, lions, gorillas, zebras, and various species of antelope, including the rarely-seen aquatic sitatunga.
Carl Akeley was an outstanding taxidermist employed at the Field Museum in Chicago when the American Museum of Natural History sent him to Africa to collect elephant hides. Akeley fell in love with the rainforests of Africa and decried the encroachment of farming and civilization into formerly pristine natural habitats. Fearing the permanent loss of these natural areas, Akeley was motivated to educate the American public by creating the hall that bears his name. Akeley died in 1926 from infection while exploring the Kivu Volcanoes in his beloved Belgian Congo, an area near to that depicted by the hall's gorilla diorama.
With the 1942 opening of the Hall of North American Mammals, diorama art reached a pinnacle. It took more than a decade to create the scenes depicted in the hall.
Among the hall's notable dioramas is the "sperm whale and giant squid", which represents a true melding of art and science since an actual encounter between these two giant creatures at over one half mile depth has never been witnessed.
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The American Museum of Natural History:
Located in the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York, USA, is one of the largest and one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions in the world. Located in park-like grounds, the Museum comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research laboratories, and its renowned library.
The collections contain over 32 million specimens, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The Museum has a scientific staff of more than 200, and sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year.
Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition. The founding of the Museum realized the dream of naturalist Dr. Albert S. Bickmore. Bickmore, a one-time student of Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, lobbied tirelessly for years for the establishment of a natural history museum in New York. His proposal, backed by his powerful sponsors, won the support of the Governor of New York, John Thompson Hoffman, who signed a bill officially creating the American Museum of Natural History on April 6, 1869.
Steampunk Sherlock Holmes
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