Direct and indirect influence of fungi in the arts
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Examples of fungi in art. Left to right, top to bottom:
Pre-Columbian mushroom sculptures (c. 1000 BCE – c. 500 CE)
A glass sculpture (c. 1940) by mycologist William Dillon Weston, depicting the Botrytis cinerea, a phytopathogen
'Champi(gn)ons' (2017), a sculpture by artist Vera Meyer made with parasol mushrooms (Macrolepiota procera, metal, shellac, 30 x 20 x 8 cm).
'MY-CO SPACE' (2018), a building prototype using the mycelium of Fomes fomentarius.
Fungi are a common theme and working material in art. Fungi appear in nearly all art forms, including literature, paintings, and graphic arts; and more recently, contemporary art, music, photography, comic books, sculptures, video games, dance, cuisine, architecture, fashion, and design. There are some exhibitions dedicated to fungi, as well as an entire museum (the Museo del Hongo in Chile).
Contemporary artists experimenting with fungi often work within the realm of BioArt and may use fungi as materials. Artists may use fungi as allegory, narrative, or props. In addition, artists may also film fungi with time-lapse photography to display fungal life cycles or try more experimental techniques. Artists using fungi may explore themes of transformation, decay, renewal, sustainability, or cycles of matter. They may also work with mycologists, ecologists, designers, or architects in a multidisciplinary way.
Artists may be indirectly influenced by fungi via derived substances (such as alcohol or psilocybin). They may depict the effects of these substances, make art under the influence of these substances, or in some cases, both.
Fungi are a common theme and working material inart. Fungi appear in nearly all art forms, including literature, paintings, and graphic arts; and more...
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focus of academic study in the field of ethnomycology. Fungi have appeared, too, from time to time, in literature and art. Fungi create harm by spoiling...
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association of mushrooms and prosperity. Other examples of contemporary art depicting fungi include Anselm Kiefer's Über Deutschland and Sonja Bäumel's Objects...
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known as magic mushrooms or shrooms, are a polyphyletic informal group of fungi that contain psilocybin, which turns into psilocin upon ingestion. Biological...
The Fungi from Yuggoth is a set of eight adventures published by Chaosium in 1984 for the horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu, itself based on the...
metabolites. The spores are the dispersal units of the fungi. Not all fungi form molds. Some fungi form mushrooms; others grow as single cells and are called...
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ethnomycological data. It is possibly the oldest example of rock art used to claim the ritual use of fungiin prehistory, with Tassili being the first site that likely...
up in Massachusetts and studied art at Oberlin College, Ohio. As of 2021, she is married with two children and lives in North Carolina. Fungiinart Hissong...
tooth fungi, and so on. "Mushroom" has been used for polypores, puffballs, jelly fungi, coral fungi, bracket fungi, stinkhorns, and cup fungi. Thus,...
branching, filamentous structure of a fungus, oomycete, or actinobacterium. In most fungi, hyphae are the main mode of vegetative growth, and are collectively...
their notable white spots. Recent DNA fungi research, however, has shown that some mushrooms called 'fly agaric' are in fact unique species, such as A. persicina...
threatened in some way. About 7% are apparently extinct, 9% endangered, 17% vulnerable, and 7% rare. The conservation status of non-lichen-forming fungiin Slovakia...
history of artin Asia parallels the development of Western art. The art histories of Asia and Europe are greatly intertwined, with Asian art greatly influencing...
relationship between black fungi and red bacteria. The Grampians-Gariwerd region is Victoria is one of the richest Aboriginal rock art sites in south-eastern Australia...
fungi. Historically, as in Aristotle's biology, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi....
Grimaldi et al. (2018) report biological inclusions (fungi, plants, arachnids and insects) in amber from the Paleogene Chickaloon Formation of Alaska...
some others dream while asleep. Fungi respond directly to nightfall and increase their biomass. With some exceptions, fungi do not rely on a biological clock...
phylum containing anaerobic fungi, which are symbionts found in the digestive tracts of larger herbivores. Anaerobic fungi were originally placed within...
Ergot (/ˈɜːrɡət/ UR-gət) or ergot fungi refers to a group of fungi of the genus Claviceps. The most prominent member of this group is Claviceps purpurea...
The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice. G. G. J. and J. Robinson. pp. 595–596. Cooke, M.C. (1891). British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish...
These are some words which are unique to the Dorset dialect, spoken in Dorset in the West Country of England. Wiktionary has a category on Dorset English...
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