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Artist: Jerry Venditti
Dimensions: 24" x 18" x 2"
Media: natural pigment oil on unbleached Belgium linen; mounted in a handmade museum quality guilt frame.
Artist's Description: The Alcyonacea, or the soft corals are an order of corals which do not produce calcium carbonate skeletons and so are neither reef-building corals nor do they lay new foundations for future corals. Instead they contain minute, spiny skeletal elements called sclerites. Aside from their scientific utility in species identification, sclerites give these corals some degree of support and give their flesh a spiky, grainy texture that deters predators. (From Wikipedia) |
