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Has the Art of the 19th c. lead to Bio-Art?

Since the nineteen century the fields of biology and art have often intertwined. From the famous American landscape paintings, produced by the Hudson River School, to Thomas Eakin’s medical painting The Gross Clinic. Even the new medium of photograph contributed to science by providing accurate images of plants, animals, and other specimen for scientific study.

All of the above has inspired a new hybrid art, Bio-Art.
Aimee Morgana, an artist and art educator at SVA, is currently working on a series of controlled experiments and on going research with her African Gray parrot, N’kisi.

However, unlike the works of the nineteen century, artists are no longing flirting with biology but are actually using its practices as the art. If the field of fine arts crosses over into the scientific field, to the point were it is no longer collectable or can exist in galleries or museums, is it really art any more?