Odd
art form.
Steven Kutcher, of 63
years, is an artist from Los Angeles that paints using
insects. spiders, flies, bees, butterflies, crickets and
cockroaches are some of the insects that this artist uses
to elaborate his works, although in fact the paintings
are done by the insects and not by him.
Credits: bugartbysteven.com
Insects possess segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton,
a hard outer covering made mostly of chitin. The segments
of the body are organized into three regions, or tagmata;
a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The head supports a
pair of sensory antennae, a pair of compound eyes, one
to three simple eyes ("ocelli") and three sets
of variously modified appendages that form the mouthparts.
The thorax has six legs (one pair each for the prothorax,
mesothorax and the metathorax segments making up the thorax)
and two or four wings (if present in the species). The
abdomen (made up of eleven segments some of which may
be reduced or fused) has most of the digestive, respiratory,
excretory and reproductive internal structures.
Art refers to a diverse range of human activities and
artifacts, and may be used to cover all or any of the
arts, including music, literature and other forms. It
is most often used to refer specifically to the visual
arts, including media such as painting, sculpture, and
printmaking. However it can also be applied to forms of
art that stimulate the other senses, such as music, an
auditory art. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which
considers art... |
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