Ep38 - Mushroom Depictions in Art - Pt4 of Mystic, Magic and Mealtime Mushrooms
This episode is part 4, or episode 38, and will look at some examples of my favourite artworks that depict or feature mushrooms…by artists including Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang, Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan, Hine Mizushima, Beatrix Potter and Elsie Wakefield, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu (and more. There will be a bit about the Game of Shrooms, the annual world-wide mushroom art N seek event created by Attaboy. There will even be a little bit of mushroom magic in film and music at the end with a note on the 2019 documentary film Fantastic Fungi and from the late Czech mushroom composer Vaclav Halek.
Notes:
00:00 - 00:01 - Intro
00:01 - 00:03 - Qiu Yang, 16th c Ming Dynasty Chinese artist and The Gathering of Immortals at the Peach Festival scroll
00:03 - 00:05 - Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan and the ‘Lingzhi Girls’ sculptures
00:05 - 00:07 - Kew Gardens Digital Content Producer Grace Brewer’s article in celebration of 2020 International Women’s Day titled ‘Women who transformed the world of plants and fungi.’
00:07 - 00:10 - Yayoi Kusama and her Mushroom works
00:10 - 00:12 - Parastic Fungus by Hiné Mizushima
00:12 - 00:17 - Wangechi Mutu - Riding Death in My Sleep and The NewOnes, will free Us
00:17 - 00:19 - Game of Shrooms by Attaboy and Fantastastic Fungi documentary
00:19 - 00:23 - Václav Hálek the late Czechoslovakian mushroom composer, concert pianist and classical omposer and his Atlas of Mushrooms compositions
00:23 - 00:25 - Closing
Pt1 (Ep35):
Ethnomycology & Shamanism & Cave Art
Pt2 (Ep36):
Fungi & Folklore
Pt3 (Ep37)
Mealtimes, Mental Health and Mindfulness with Karmen Perez-Pineda of Cats with a Heart - Pt3 of Mystic, Magic and Mealtime Mushrooms
Detail from The Gathering of Immortals at the Peach Festival scroll has been attributed to the Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang, This 7 metre of 23 ft long, 16th century scroll shows how and why the Ling-zhi mushrooom is known as the ‘mushroom of immortality.’ features the birthday party of the Queen of the West, who was a Chinese goddess.
Detail from The Gathering of Immortals at the Peach Festival scroll has been attributed to the Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang
Detail from The Gathering of Immortals at the Peach Festival scroll has been attributed to the Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang
Lingzhi Girls by Xiaojing Yan (image shown with permission of the artist via http://yanxiaojing.com) 2017
Lingzhi Girls by Xiaojing Yan (image shown with permission of the artist via http://yanxiaojing.com) 2017
The Kew Gardens Digital Content Producer Grace Brewer recently wrote an amazing article in celebration of 2020 International Women’s Day titled Women who transformed the world of plants and fungi
Elsie Wakefield who wrote and illustrated The Observer's Book of Common Fungi Describing Nearly 200 Species and was elected President of the British Mycological Society in 1929.
Yayoi Kusama, Mushrooms painting, 2003
Yayoi Kusama, Mushrooms lithograph, 1995
Parastic Fungus by Hiné Mizushima, (image used with the permission of the artist:
www.hinemizushima.com, www.behance.net/hine, instagram.com/sheishine
Parastic Fungus by Hiné Mizushima, (image used with the permission of the artist:
www.hinemizushima.com, www.behance.net/hine, instagram.com/sheishine
Parastic Fungus by Hiné Mizushima, (image used with the permission of the artist:
www.hinemizushima.com, www.behance.net/hine, instagram.com/sheishine