{"title":"Arts, Cultural Heritage, Sciences and Micro-/Bio-/Techno-/Logy: impact of biomaterials and biocolorants from antiquity till today!","authors":"Maarten L De Mol, Erick J Vandamme","doi":"10.1093/jimb/kuae049","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nature has inspired and provided humans with ideas, concepts and thoughts on design, art and performance for millenia. From early societies when humankind often took shelter in caves, until today, many materials and colorants to express feelings or communicate with one another, were derived from plants, animals or microbes. In this manuscript, an overview of these natural products used in the creation of art, is given, from paintings on rocks to fashionable dresses made from bacterial cellulose. Besides offering many examples of art works, also the origin and application of various biomaterials and colorants are discussed. While many facets of our daily lives have changed over millenia, one certainty has been that humans have an intrinsic need to conceptualize and create to express themselves. Driven by technological advances in the past decades and in the light of global warming, new and often more sustainable materials and colorants have been discovered and implemented. The impact of art on human societies remains relevant and powerful.</p>","PeriodicalId":16092,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jimb/kuae049","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Nature has inspired and provided humans with ideas, concepts and thoughts on design, art and performance for millenia. From early societies when humankind often took shelter in caves, until today, many materials and colorants to express feelings or communicate with one another, were derived from plants, animals or microbes. In this manuscript, an overview of these natural products used in the creation of art, is given, from paintings on rocks to fashionable dresses made from bacterial cellulose. Besides offering many examples of art works, also the origin and application of various biomaterials and colorants are discussed. While many facets of our daily lives have changed over millenia, one certainty has been that humans have an intrinsic need to conceptualize and create to express themselves. Driven by technological advances in the past decades and in the light of global warming, new and often more sustainable materials and colorants have been discovered and implemented. The impact of art on human societies remains relevant and powerful.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology is an international journal which publishes papers describing original research, short communications, and critical reviews in the fields of biotechnology, fermentation and cell culture, biocatalysis, environmental microbiology, natural products discovery and biosynthesis, marine natural products, metabolic engineering, genomics, bioinformatics, food microbiology, and other areas of applied microbiology