Bio Art

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The AmericanSociety for Microbiologists has hosted its first international 'Agar Art' challenge, in which microbiologists from around the world used various microbes and germs to create beautiful works of art in petri dishes. The submissions included recognizable paintings like Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' as well as original microbe paintings.

Explore Bruce Riley's 1043 photos on Flickr!

COLOUR: Be inspired by a picture you love, save folders of inspirational picturesthen use them in similar proportions..then try changing those proportion and see the differences How about these zingy

Inspired by the art of natural occurrence, Daria Fedorova is a multidisciplinary artist, developing a peculiar methodology of artistic cultivation of microorganisms. Using different supplements her work is no less than a science lab experimentation with each work being distinct and unique.

Artist Dasha Plesen combines molds, bacteria, spores, and other objects in petri dishes to create these colorful abstract

Artists Urbonas Studio, Xiaojing Yan, Jemila MacEwen, Nour Mobarak, and TJ Shin show what fungi can teach us about surviving climate crises.

Beau White (Australia) is a hyperrealist and figurative oil painter who uses nightmarish imagery and absurdism to explore the darker side of the human condition. His work augments “real world” settings with grotesque and surprising handmade elements to create new perspectives on the everyday that are both comical and d

magical contamination: mould as art by antoine bridier-nahmias expresses the textural and colourful diversity of fungi, though an array of patterns.