{"id":1484,"date":"2020-09-15T17:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:17","slug":"a-sketch-of-the-universe-new-online-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/a-sketch-of-the-universe-new-online-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sketch of the Universe \u2013 new online exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While our physical exhibition spaces have been closed, the University\u2019s Museum Services have been curating online exhibitions using Art UK\u2019s new Curations platform. The latest exhibition highlights the extraordinary artistic influence of Dundee\u2019s first Professor of Biology, D\u2019Arcy Thompson (1860-1948). Partly based on the exhibition <em>A Sketch of the Universe<\/em> curated by Matthew Jarron at Edinburgh City Art Centre in 2016-17, the online display features work by many of the renowned painters and sculptors who read and were inspired by D\u2019Arcy\u2019s book <em>On Growth and Form<\/em>, including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Salvador Dali and Jackson Pollock.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1486\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/DUN_UOD_DUNUC_ARTS_4425-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1486\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/DUN_UOD_DUNUC_ARTS_4425-001.jpg\" alt=\"sculpture\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/DUN_UOD_DUNUC_ARTS_4425-001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/DUN_UOD_DUNUC_ARTS_4425-001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/DUN_UOD_DUNUC_ARTS_4425-001-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/DUN_UOD_DUNUC_ARTS_4425-001-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Beginning by Peter Randall-Page, 2009 (University of Dundee Museum Services, presented by the Art Fund with support from the National Fund for Acquisitions \u00a9 the artist)Collections; http:\/\/www.artuk.org\/artworks\/in-the-beginning-255088<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also included are many of the artworks acquired for the University of Dundee\u2019s collections thanks to a major grant from the Art Fund. You can see the exhibition at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artuk.org\/discover\/curations\/a-sketch-of-the-universe-the-artistic-influence-of-darcy-thompson\/\">https:\/\/artuk.org\/discover\/curations\/a-sketch-of-the-universe-the-artistic-influence-of-darcy-thompson\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While our physical exhibition spaces have been closed, the University\u2019s Museum Services have been curating online exhibitions using Art UK\u2019s new Curations platform. The latest exhibition highlights the extraordinary artistic influence of Dundee\u2019s first Professor of Biology, D\u2019Arcy Thompson (1860-1948). Partly based on the exhibition A Sketch of the Universe curated by Matthew Jarron at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-museums"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6416,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/6416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}