Right now, students from around Greenville County are painting thousands of bright ceramic butterflies and learning about a very dark time in history. They are taking part in The Butterfly Project, ...

We did a project on structures for school. I chose butterflies for my inspiration because I found it interesting that they are made up of two structures. The first is the main structure of the ...

At first look, Tim Yanke’s butterfly painting feels as if the insects are coming to life. But being an innovator, he wanted to take things a step further. His painting “Peta louthias,” Greek for ...

arranged for the five-year loan of "Bringing Forth the Fruits of Righteousness From Darkness," from 2008, a gigantic collage-painting made from the wings of thousands of butterflies. The work, owned ...

Back in the day, paint often got its color from the actual animal kingdom. Insects like cochineal and carmine gave us rich blues and blood reds. Renaissance painters used egg as a binder in tempura ...

I Am Become Death, Shatterer Of Worlds – a title echoing the words of scientist J Robert Oppenheimer after the detonation of the first atom bomb – is Hirst's largest painting using butterfly wings.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The National Museum of Asian Art, ...

The vivid blue color of morpho butterflies doesn’t come from pigment but from tiny nanostructures on their wings that bend and reflect light. In a recent study, scientists designed a thin film with a ...

A new material inspired by butterfly wings repels water and gleams with brilliant color. Like iridescent butterflies, the material uses tiny structures on its surface to achieve both qualities. A ...

The jeweler Pierre Dubail’s abstract work has been set onto a jeweled butterfly brooch. By Kathleen Beckett The term art jewelry is bandied about a lot, typically referring to jewelry of a sculptural ...