Trilobite
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Acrylic on canvas 48” x 32” / My apologies for the low-res image, it is the only one I have of this painting. / The colours in the original are far richer and deeper in appearance than in this reproduction. (The painting sold ‘off the easel’ before I had time to photograph it properly) The reason for this lengthy description – which is something that I do not normally add to my work – is that, ‘Timeline’ has been entered into Mufas temporary gallery in order for critical assessment to be applied, and a decision made as to whether it is a Putist work. / Putism is a new art movement that is being created right here, right now, by artists from the Painters in Modern Times group in RedBubble. The Birth of Putism can be seen here / ............. The central form in the painting takes the shape of an (allegorical) trilobyte, an ancient creature that has lived for the whole history of our planet. Time moves from the top to the bottom of the canvas. The thin red line across the canvas represents the time that we have been on the earth. / .............. The creature is the first form that I thought of when I faced the newly primed blank canvas, while drawing in the form the idea ‘time’ entered my mind. The ‘human’ time element of the painting is also an allegory of the creative time of the artist, a brief but incandescent culmination of an immense background. We are all potentially greater than the sum of our antecedents. / ................ The painting developed a circularity of meaning, the creativity feeds and bleeds (blue) into the immensity and makes it even more immense, which feeds more creativity. The thin red diagonal line is the path through which we connect to our planet’s history and our own histories which then acts as a channel and route for our creativity. It is the ‘string’ that we have laid to find our way back. / ............... The future section at the base of the painting (the other side of the line) is painted as the mouth of a river seen from space. It represents the nourishment of the future by our creativity. I have tried to include in visual form the notion of a ‘future light cone’ ie. A space in which an action (light) entering at a singularity (the rivermouth) has a given future which expands in any unknown direction within the limitations of a conical form, the boundaries of which are prescribed by and expand over a given period of time (to infinity) – I feel that this passage of the painting did not work and almost destroyed the work at that point – I may well return to this theme as a starting point for a new work (see below) This is roughly how I work on all of my large paintings, with an instinctively conjured or remembered element (the trilobyte) and (sometimes) an allegorical theme, followed by a completely free and re-active building of expressive layers (random and controlled) until at some point……the painting starts to work. If it does not work (for me) then I destroy the image and begin again – the new work feeding from the carcass of the old one.
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Fossilised Trilobite
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An oil painting created for Darwin Day 2008. A portion of the profits from merchandise with this image will go toward The Beagle Project , a re-creation of the voyage of The Beagle, launching in 2009 on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. You can see a ‘Making of’ this image on my blog, The Flying Trilobite . (my first image on Redbubble!) -Glendon Mellow / The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science
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An oil painting created for Darwin Day 2008, this version is like the original and without text. A portion of the profits from merchandise with this image will go toward The Beagle Project , a re-creation of the voyage of The Beagle, launching in 2009 on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. You can see a ‘Making of’ this image on my blog, The Flying Trilobite . -Glendon Mellow / The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science
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A drawing created for Darwin Day 2008. A portion of the profits from merchandise with this image will go toward The Beagle Project , a re-creation of the voyage of The Beagle, launching in 2009 on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. You can see a ‘Making of’ this image on my blog, The Flying Trilobite . -Glendon Mellow / The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science
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A drawing created for Darwin Day 2008. A portion of the profits from merchandise with this image will go toward The Beagle Project , a re-creation of the voyage of The Beagle, launching in 2009 on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. You can see a ‘Making of’ this image on my blog, The Flying Trilobite . Now in more colour options! Pale pink, baby blue, creme, yellow, grey! -Glendon Mellow / The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science
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Oil on shale. This painting is currently featured on my blog, The Flying Trilobite as the banner for 2008. Trilobites have fascinated me since I was a child. During my university years, they began creeping into my artwork again, occasionally with bat, dragonfly or butterfly wings. One of the things about artmaking that compels me, is that as human beings we have a tremendous capacity for imagining things that never were, and may never be. This is a beautiful gift (so long as we don’t confuse imagination with reality!), and digging deep into Earth’s prehistoric past fires up my imagination… ...And out come trilobites with faulty anatomy. One last note: painting on shale is not fit for expensive brushes. You can see more paintings on shale at The Flying Trilobite . Thanks, / Glendon / - - / Glendon Mellow / The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science
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Oil on shale. This piece was also used for my blog banner on The Flying Trilobite in 2007. To see what it looked like with text and lighting as a blog banner, please visit my gallery of blog artwork here at DeviantArt . The second in this series is also visible here on Redbubble as cards, matted prints and canvas prints. / - - / Glendon Mellow / The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science
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Trilobites – Space Invaders style. / My entry for the Public Domain Image Mash up challenge. / / Images from Wikimedia Commons / /
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Oil on 9 pieces of shale. J.B.S. Haldane once said, when asked what would falsify the fossil record of evolution: “Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian”. You can see more about this image at my blog, The Flying Trilobite . Images of this print, and of Configuration B, are available for sale.
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Oil on 9 pieces of shale. J.B.S. Haldane once said, when asked what would falsify the fossil record of evolution: “Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian”. You can see more about this image at my blog, The Flying Trilobite . Images of this print, and of Configuration A, are available for sale.
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August 2008 oil on canvas Glendon Mellow / The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science
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November 2008 oil on canvas paper. Glendon Mellow / The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science
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The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science / by Glendon Mellow Surreal visions of scientific illustration, as seen on the science-art blog, The Flying Trilobite . Oil paintings and pencil sketches of trilobites, fossils, Darwin, a shale-puzzle, and more.
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Part of an abstract collection of work I collaborated on called XX_XX (twenty twenty). Done purely for experimentally abstract fun! The idea was to tap into the noise of the unconscious, using mixed media. No logo’s, no product, no celebrity faces! This piece was inspired by chaos and fossils. I’m going to upload a few more so let me know what you think!
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I always thought fossils, and trilobites in particular, were fascinating, but haven’t thought much about them in a LONG time…So where this came from in my head I do not know…For more images of “real” and cool trilobites, check this out: http://www.trilobites.info/galcorynexochida.htm
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Trilobites were marine arthropods first appeared in the Early Cambrian period (540 million years ago) and were prevalent throughout the Paleozoic era.
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A trilobite fossil from the Australian Museum here in Sydney; another request from Metatron, my little boy. Trilobites / Trilobites (“three-lobes”) are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites first appear in the fossil record during the Early Cambrian period (540 million years ago) and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before beginning a drawn-out decline to extinction when, during the Devonian, all trilobite orders, with the sole exception of Proetida, died out. Trilobites finally disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 250 million years ago. / When trilobites first appeared they were already highly diverse and geographically dispersed. Because trilobites had wide diversity and an easily fossilized exoskeleton an extensive fossil record was left, with some 17,000 known species spanning Paleozoic time. Trilobites have provided important contributions to biostratigraphy, paleontology, evolutionary biology and plate tectonics. Trilobites are often placed within the arthropod subphylum Schizoramia within the superclass Arachnomorpha (equivalent to the Arachnata),although several alternative taxonomies are found in the literature. / Trilobites had many life styles; some moved over the sea-bed (benthic) as predators, scavengers or filter feeders and some swam (pelagic) feeding on plankton. Most life styles expected of modern marine arthropods are seen in trilobites, except for parasitism. / Some trilobites (particularly the family Olenida) are even thought to have evolved a symbiotic relationship with sulfur-eating bacteria from which they derived food.Despite their rich fossil record with thousands of genera found throughout the world, the taxonomy and phylogeny of trilobites have many uncertainties.The systematic division of trilobites into nine distinct orders is represented by a widely held view that will inevitably change as new data emerges. Except possibly for the members of order Phacopida, all trilobite orders appeared prior to the end of the Cambrian. Most scientists believe that order Redlichiida, and more specifically its suborder Redlichiina, contains a common ancestor of all other orders, with the possible exception of the Agnostina. While many potential phylogenies are found in the literature, most have suborder Redlichiina giving rise to orders Corynexochida and Ptychopariida during the Lower Cambrian, and the Lichida descending from either the Redlichiida or Corynexochida in the Middle Cambrian. Order Ptychopariida is the most problematic order for trilobite classification. In the 1959 Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,what are now members of orders Ptychopariida, Asaphida, Proetida, and Harpetida were grouped together as order Ptychopariida; subclass Librostoma was erected in 1990to encompass all of these orders, based on their shared ancestral character of a natant (unattached) hypostome. The most recently recognized of the nine trilobite orders, Harpetida, was erected in 2002.The progenitor of order Phacopida is unclear. from: Wikipedia
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The Flying Trilobite / Art in Awe of Science / by Glendon Mellow The second collection, in time for 2010. Surreal visions of scientific illustration, as seen on the science-art blog, The Flying Trilobite .
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Oil on canvas. Detail of a larger painting. My Life With Trilobites – you can see more information about this image on my blog, The Flying Trilobite . I like this detail of the larger piece: should I upload the whole thing, weird size and all? The original is 12”x24”.
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Based on my Haldane’s Precambrian Puzzle images. This t-shirt was inspired and suggested by one of my blog readers. (Thanks Alison!) Based on the quote by the quotable biologist J.B.S. Haldane, when asked what would falsify the fossil record of evolution: “Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian”. The original is oil on 9 pieces of shale, and can be configured in two different ways. This first configuration here features a variety of fossil trilobites, and the second, a skeletal rabbit. Remember, you can choose from 4 styles of t-shirt, and 19 different colours! All made sweat-shop free.
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