How do you re-create the moon shadows seen on a snowy December night?
That was the challenge artist Stephen C. Quinn faced when new energy-efficient lights were installed in the wolf diorama, creating new shadows that weren’t consistent with the scene. Find out how he did it in this video.
Image © AMNH/R. Mickens
Alois Kronschlaeger. Moose Diorama
Art + Dioramas = Better Art. From the artist’s description “Utilizing the habitat dioramas in the Mammal Hall of the former Grand Rapids Public Museum, I have created a site-specific installation, juxtaposing the existing landscapes of 27 dioramas built in the mid-20th century with contemporary architectural intervention. By doing so, I explore what happens in an environment when overlaying a geometric abstraction onto representational yet “virtual” spaces.”
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“…These really are considered the best in the world” says artist and naturalist Stephen C. Quinn of the stunning dioramas in the Museum’s Hall of North American Mammals.
An expert team of conservators and Museum artists led a masterful restoration of this historic hall, which first opened in 1942. Preview the incredible work that has gone into these dioramas in this video and join us when the hall officially reopens on October 27.
Image © AMNH/D. Finnin
Great video!
From the archives: Museum staff install oversize models in a diorama depicting the forest floor, March 1958
Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp
© AMNH Library/Image #325494
Those look like snub nosed monkeys, right? I think so.
Also, Dioramas has 300 posts sitting here waiting to go up. But I’m busy, and you don’t want your dashboard spammed. So we’re taking it slow and easy for a while.
Dioramas WITH Mind Control!
These are actually digitally created/rendered. But they’re beautiful, and I love me some artistic conversations about the definitions of the real. So I’m going to call them dioramas, and hope you find them as mind blowing as I do.
This velociraptor model was originally featured in the exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries in 2005. Museum curator Mark Norell recently discussed new evidence that dinosaurs, once thought to resemble scaly lizards, were in fact fluffy, colorful animals. Check out the video here.
With NYFW here, I’m absolutely over flowing with inspiration. Visual artist Charles Matton gives us a look into these miniature spaces, which were memories from his own life. Using materials such as wood, glass, plaster, and paper Matton’s creations give us a sense of what he felt during these parts in his life. Whats even more incredible is how he scaled them down to such a size and still give off the same emotions as they did in their normal size.
(Source: allvisualarts.org, via lu--lu)
Diorama at the Field Museum in Chicago
Elephant diorama from AnimaliaShop.
