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e_phemerart) wrote2008-04-05 08:16 am
e_phemerart) wrote2008-04-05 08:16 am
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Body Image: tattoo inspiration and references
I am starting to go back and pull all my anatomy themed entries together into some sort of more cohesive essay. (Darn it and why didn't I bother to use subject Tags before?)
So there isn't really anything new at all to this post. I need to just go compose in a Word document, and leave my LJ for more timely information and content (except I've gotten used to the occasional feedback fix of sharing my process).
This current entry explains and references where I got the inspiration for my anatomy tattoo.
I've been working on the design for my next tattoo.
Basically, it's a piece to "record" my decision to will my body, whenever I die, to the University Of Alabama/Birmingham's Anatomical Donor Program. http://main.uab.edu/uasom/2/show.asp?durki=36356
be·quest (b-kwst)
n.
1. The act of giving, leaving by will, or passing on to another.
2. Something that is bequeathed; a legacy.
It also speaks to some of my other quirks and interests. I've become fascinated with images from anatomy museums; in particular, 19th Century vintage waxwork exhibits of female anatomy--sometimes referred to as Anatomical Venuses or Sleeping Beauties; the tattoo is one of these dissected female cadaver models.
Tattoo line work:
http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=beautytattoo.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse
Pose:
My source inspiration was this lovely photograph of an anatomical model by photographer Herbert List. http://www.jmcfaber.at/inventory/classic/list/list5.htm
Given the photo documentation, the model may be part of the collection of the Jospehinum in Vienna. http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/histmed/medhistmus_wachspraep_english.htm
However, this particular model looks more like this example: http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=RefMorbidCuriosity.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse
Cited at http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-02/sappol/ as being "Fig. 6. Anatomical/pathological erotica: dissected woman with tuberculosis. Wax. Late nineteenth century. Courtesy Spitzner collection, Musées d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouviere, Paris."
Other victorian influences: http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=wax9.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse from http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/misc/bonardo.html
Viscera: http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=susiniven.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse
Reclining female figure (”Medical Venus”) by Clemente Susini, late 18th century wax La Specola, University of Florence
Background: http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=reftheatre.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse
more photos at: http://www.astropop.com/anatomical/ These are also from the (18th century) La Specola collection
My favorite blog: http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/
So there isn't really anything new at all to this post. I need to just go compose in a Word document, and leave my LJ for more timely information and content (except I've gotten used to the occasional feedback fix of sharing my process).
This current entry explains and references where I got the inspiration for my anatomy tattoo.
I've been working on the design for my next tattoo.
Basically, it's a piece to "record" my decision to will my body, whenever I die, to the University Of Alabama/Birmingham's Anatomical Donor Program. http://main.uab.edu/uasom/2/show.asp?durki=36356
be·quest (b-kwst)
n.
1. The act of giving, leaving by will, or passing on to another.
2. Something that is bequeathed; a legacy.
It also speaks to some of my other quirks and interests. I've become fascinated with images from anatomy museums; in particular, 19th Century vintage waxwork exhibits of female anatomy--sometimes referred to as Anatomical Venuses or Sleeping Beauties; the tattoo is one of these dissected female cadaver models.
Tattoo line work:
http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=beautytattoo.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse
Pose:
My source inspiration was this lovely photograph of an anatomical model by photographer Herbert List. http://www.jmcfaber.at/inventory/classic/list/list5.htm
Given the photo documentation, the model may be part of the collection of the Jospehinum in Vienna. http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/histmed/medhistmus_wachspraep_english.htm
However, this particular model looks more like this example: http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=RefMorbidCuriosity.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse
Cited at http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-02/sappol/ as being "Fig. 6. Anatomical/pathological erotica: dissected woman with tuberculosis. Wax. Late nineteenth century. Courtesy Spitzner collection, Musées d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouviere, Paris."
Other victorian influences: http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=wax9.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse from http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/misc/bonardo.html
Viscera: http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=susiniven.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse
Reclining female figure (”Medical Venus”) by Clemente Susini, late 18th century wax La Specola, University of Florence
Background: http://usera.imagecave.com/system/showpicture.asp?u=cloverr&p=reftheatre.jpg&a=AnatomicalMuse
more photos at: http://www.astropop.com/anatomical/ These are also from the (18th century) La Specola collection
My favorite blog: http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/