[art] Endless Forms, Fitzwilliam, 11.09.09

[tamaranth]

Endless Forms -- Fitzwilliam, 11.09.09 (closed 4.10.09)
Exhibition site

Highlights included:

• William Dyce's Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858: geologising middle-class families. Donati's comet is in the sky overhead, visible by day, but nobody looks up.


• Patrick Syme's edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
Arranged so as to Render it Highly Useful to the Arts and Sciences, Particularly Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy and Morbid Anatomy: Annexed to which are Examples Selected from Well-Known Objects in the Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Kingdoms. Darwin used this for his descriptions of specimens. The Google version omits the Examples, which is a shame:


• Landseer's The Cat's Paw, which is a nasty and deeply disturbing depiction of animal 'cruelty'.

I did enjoy the exhibition but it really needed a second visit for me to pull it together in my head: and that first visit was just after my interview with the employment agency that landed me full-time employment ...

Comments

[uitlander]

It was an excellent exhibition, and one I only got to in the last week. I am rather hoping that the ctalogue is reduced soon.