Anatomy Artists

The work of Gunther von Hagens is fascinating as well as disturbing to me, I found out about plastination by researching animal anatomy, Building on previous knowledge from lessons in Health and Social Care at college. I'm really interested in nature and science - Alongside artistic courses I studied Biology and Health and Social care at college which both touched on the way our bodies work. The anatomy of living things is so complex and detailed, so because I like to study the human form and animals due to their complexity, I believe that in the same way, this is why i'm also interested in drawing their structures.

Wikipedia info: "Gunther von Hagens is a German anatomist who invented the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination.

 Being a haemophiliac, as a child he spent six months in hospital after being injured. This stimulated an interest in medical science and in 1965 he commenced studies in medicine at the University of Jena, Germany.

 Dr von Hagens is best known for his plastination technique, which he invented in 1977 and patented in the following year The first exhibition of whole bodies was displayed in Japan in 1995. Over the next two years, von Hagens developed the Body Worlds exhibition, showing whole bodies plastinated in lifelike poses and dissected to show various structures and systems of human anatomy, which has since met with public interest and controversy in more than 50 cities around the world."
(wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_von_Hagens)


For deeper research into my anatomy study, I may watch the  Documentaries on channel 4 'Anatomy for Beginners' : http://www.channel4.com/programmes/anatomy-for-beginners/episode-guide