The Herbert art gallery nature notes exhibition
This exhibition focuses on nature and how it changes
throughout the seasons using mostly taxidermy and some paintings along with a
sensory table for each season in the centre of the room. I attended this
exhibition to hopefully to gain insight into natural forms and textures such as
furs and feathers. The major factor in choosing to go to the exhibition is my
theme of technology in which this exhibition focuses solely on nature therefore
fits into part of my theme. All of the taxidermy used is form animals that died
of natural causes.
Spring

During the summer time the young of organisms are raised and
taught
To fend for themselves, summer is also the time in which rescores
are most abundant as plants are able to photosynthesise more than in any other
season, however the main risk of the hot summers is the risk of dehydration in
both plants and animals. The case displaying summer consisted of mostly birds
as this is when migrating birds visit England to take advantage of the
abundance of recourses, thus greatly increasing the bird population, insects
also take advantage of this and provide food for birds and featured in a
smaller separate display case. Springs sensory table had a taxidermy mouse
which could be stroked gently to feel the texture of the fur, while birdsongs
and insect calls could be herd when one of the buttons on the table was
pressed.
Autumn

Winter

Summary
As this exhibition consisted of mostly taxidermy it could
not be used to examine art techniques, however this exhibition has been useful
to observe and document natural form as the textures of feathers and furs can
be seen and also the colours are also visible allowing for a close up view of
wildlife. The paintings within this exhibition mostly consists of watercolour
studies of plants, this is not entirely useful in terms of techniques however
some of the other paintings do use some interesting techniques such as
printmaking and oil paintings to depict natural forms. Overall this exhibition
was useful to allow me to study natural forms and how colours and forms change
throughout the seasons. The sensory aspects of the exhibition were very
interesting however my main criticism for these is that I was not able to
perceive the scents that were contained in boxes very well and found it hard to
distinguish them from each other though other people did not seen to have this
issue, therefore I have not included them in the season paragraphs, despite that
I did find the sensory tables quite useful as it has allowed me to further my
knowledge of the sounds of various animals and of the textures of their fur and
feathers.
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