7.20.2008

Mute Monday: Science

observation: the first rule of scientific inquiry.
the master? Ernst Haeckel 1834 - 1919











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72 Comments:

Blogger h said...

Awesome. I must look up Haikel and whoever did the drawings if it wasn't him. I was going to do a similar MM but now I'm REALLY glad I didn't.

Happy Mute Monday!

6:21 AM  
Blogger Gnomeself Be True said...

Firgures you'd find beauty....

6:41 AM  
Blogger moi said...

The bats, the bats, the bats are beautiful! Must learn more about Ernst Haeckel. But notice, won't you: NO SQUIRRELS! Bwahahahahaha!

6:46 AM  
Blogger Big Shamu said...

Incredible. I'm with Troll, looking up Haeckel tonight because his work is beautiful. Thank you for putting me on his path.
Happy Mute Monday.

6:58 AM  
Blogger sparringK9 said...

trolly: haeckel. victorian renaissance man -biologist; artist; scientist; adventurer. its one thing to sketch what you see -quite another to compose those sketches into visually stunning compositions

iamnot: beauty is God's flip side for all that stings

moi: the book "art forms in nature" is a classic and a must for all personal libraries. i highly recommend it.
oh no...theres squirrels...on a plate under "woodland creatures"

arm yourself madam!

7:02 AM  
Blogger sparringK9 said...

shamu: you will see his influence quite regularly in design - fabrics, decorative papers, etc.

7:05 AM  
Blogger Johanne said...

Wow! Tis is so close to art...;-))
Happy MM!

7:19 AM  
Blogger Jenny said...

I agree with Iamnot - it's no surprise you found beauty and art in science. Those shells are mesmerizing. I can't take my eyes off of them... ok, I did to post my comment, but still. AMAZING.

And the butterflies too.

*sigh* Happy MM.

7:46 AM  
Blogger sparringK9 said...

searabbit: to me science and art are interchangable!

anonymous boxer: i cannot wait to get back to my studio and add some diatoms to the painting i am working on now. (im at chickory)

7:59 AM  
Blogger X. Dell said...

I'm thinking that the title of the Haeckel book would have been a great subtitle for this post.

The post does raise an interesting question: namely, does beauty have a rationalistic basis, or do we impose a rationalistic order upon nature.

8:36 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Oh I like all of the charts. Wasn't that Rin Tin Tin? I looooved that cartoon :)

8:55 AM  
Blogger darkfoam said...

nature is art ..

9:26 AM  
Blogger Joanna Cake said...

Oh, I like those! Very ordered and beautiful. Happy MM x

10:56 AM  
Blogger Bunny said...

Very artistic take on the theme - fits you wonderfully!

Happy MM!

11:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Excellent selections from you as ,
"observation , the first rule of artistic inquiry" is also truth. Indeed, art derived from nature is the most communicative to the human soul. Shame ol Haeckel selections did not include species: equs

11:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bravo!

11:21 AM  
Blogger Enemy of the Republic said...

I gave a lecture once on Ernest--the things we do for money. You know he inspired Himmler to begin a youth Aryan movement. Great guy.


I should join you in this, but I blog when the muse hits.

As usual, you rock.

11:38 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

another
beautiful post
&
some tres interesting ideas
here in the comments -- here's another two cents worth:

art/sci interchange: scientific method is not art, and art not sci method, but, at the heart of both is discovery (NOT 'creation') -- that is to say, ALL is created already and artists and scientists BOTH discover what is already in/out there -- pope gregory (i think), 14C, said (paraphrasing) 'the purpose of art is to reveal the mysteries of the supranatural world' -- this idea is stated again and again by artists ever since -- art, like science, is a process of discovery but the two come at it by different paths/methods...

ok, that was three cents -- here's two more:

foam's 'nature is art' -- i agree, sort of, but would turn this around to say that art is (uniquely!) man's attempt to realize our existence in the 'image of' our creator -- our attempt to 'create' (even tho we do little more than discover) -- so, art is nature (natural)

ok, i'm broke but happy now :)

/t.

note -- opinions expressed above are not necessary those of management

11:47 AM  
Blogger sparringK9 said...

xdell: i believe beauty is order as is nature. even chaos is an order...and other orders we do not recognize not having the necessary "scope" i guess would be the word.

edith: no. it was a cartoon with like a poindexter guy with big glasses and a flying white with black floppy ears dog = they might have been somehow in tandem with rocky and bullwinkle

foamy: yes.

cake: thank you. and, nice ass! grrrrrrherherhehahaha

bunny: and there were a million artistic ways to go. i found these remarkable paintings of the planets but i plan to give them their own post. happy MM!

12:05 PM  
Blogger sparringK9 said...

fishy: its good to see you. im glad you come here. yes, it is a pity theres not an equs page..... but i think of other critical art publications where equs is king...eadward muybridge comes to mind.....

enemy: theres more bad news. he falsified his findings on bird embryology in order to advance "recapitulation theory" ...he said it was an error which he corrected but it was with some controversy. some extrapolated his work to support eugenics.

that said, his published sketch book and seminal art forms in nature have been unrivaled as far as the marriage of art and biology goes.

good to see you out!

12:12 PM  
Blogger sparringK9 said...

/t: great observation. and i agree - it exists always. and we discover. that makes me a renaissance dog then, both artist and explorer!

revealing the supernatural world is arts function!? no pressure! grrrrrrherhahahaha no i absolutely agree with you on that. and when you get off a good one, you get a more truthful look at whatever than looking at it straight on in real life.

12:16 PM  
Blogger Jenny said...

My obsession of the day is now Diatom's... I've been Googling, etc. SO COOL.

12:32 PM  
Blogger Edith said...

Troll said you were talking about Mr. Peabody. I loooved that show! It was my favorite part of the cartoon. My dad's too. I don't know if we watched that show as reruns on cartoon network or if we watched them new... I do know that we rented them all though :)

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Blogger Aunty Belle said...

Ho! Terrific take on theme, K pup.

Diatoms--amazin'...

But the combox is a zinger:

Enemy, yeah Honey Chile--you tell em! Haeckel used art to do great ill. As k9 noted, he was a proponent of eugenics. And he falsified KNOWN facts to create a seamless "evolution" that still is unproved. ( save it, peanuts--ain't sayin' there is NO evolution, only noting it ain' remotely like Haeckel illustrated it)

/t wrote:
" the heart of both is discovery (NOT 'creation') -- that is to say, ALL is created already and artists and scientists BOTH discover what is already in/out there -- pope gregory (i think), 14C, said (paraphrasing) 'the purpose of art is to reveal the mysteries of the supranatural world' -- this idea is stated again and again by artists ever since -- art, like science, is a process of discovery but the two come at it by different paths/methods..."
WOW, /t that is grasp of reality that is positively bracing!

Foamy is the brevity queen! 'Nature is art." Nuff said.

K-9, ever read Annie Dillard's PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK? Fine book on observation.

Ya got the knack pup fer pullin' good comments from folks.

Happy MM

2:38 PM  
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Moi's forces are gathering . . .

4:08 PM  
Blogger sparringK9 said...

moi: mine too. i have a lovely diatom page in white.

edith! right, it was mr peabody!

ve: i loved it. ol married man.

Lt. MaxDam: why? whats going to happen. is the police state starting tonight? dag!

aunty: funny thing about human beings. sometimes you get the oddest combinations...

moi: what squirrels? i dont know them.

4:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These are fantastice! Looks like I need to update my library. Happy MM!

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Blogger Mr. Squirrel said...

I see Moi has infiltrated this blog. I came to see if The K9 Dog is WITH US OR AGAINST US.

You have two hours to respond or you will be on our list.

You've been warned.

(oh and happy MM, looks fun.)

7:24 PM  
Blogger Leigh of Tales from Bloggeritaville said...

definatley the most intersting. LOve it! LOve it!

8:08 PM  
Blogger Leigh of Tales from Bloggeritaville said...

I love how you find the beauty in things.

8:09 PM  
Blogger NYD said...

I am amazed at how you are able to show how art is linked to so many other fields of study.

It reminds me of something Miyamoto Musashi, Japan's sword saint said.
To understand your own art it is necessary to look outside of it. By studying the ways of others you will come to know yourself thoroughly.

Something like that

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oh foo. The caps lock was on.
Liked the pix. I got bats. Fly too close for my liking, but, they come out right after the chimney swifts. The barn swallows do the fields all day, it seems. Zipping around farm machinery, lawn mowers, runners....then the swifts. Shorter tail, way fast lil things, but, stiff winged. Turn on a half dime.
Then the bats.
Love em.
Get the mosquito bites, but, it's so danged rare.
Love the critters.
Hate the sprays.
They just finished spraying around here.
Tell y'what, that would make a great post (i hope i remember that line...)
but, I traded in the videos for words (down at the Words'R'Us store) and since it ain't mute monday anymore, slip your choppers in and go have a bite.

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WOW
I mean
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very cool.

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Blogger darkfoam said...

i was the brevity queen cause i wasn't feeling that well..
but, really ..
it sums it up..
great post...

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This was a most enjoyable visit. I absolutely love those black and white pictures.

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love them all. you have quite an eye, of course. my mum absolutely loves the drawing you did of "me" (you know, fury wrapped in a daffodil).

as for science, i'm trying to figure out the science of love and the heart ... this will take me a lifetime.

love to you ... my sweet, sweet pup.

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