I'm always fascinated by drawings and paintings created by nonhuman animals (animals). Many remind me of the artwork produced by humans, including some world-famous artists, and I often wonder what ...
Smithsonian Magazine: This Artist Turned to Painting Animals in a Turbulent Historical Moment
Tiger, oil on canvas, 1912. The artist’s vibrant animal paintings were based on careful study, including hours spent observing big cats at the Berlin Zoo. Lenbachhaus Munich, Donation of the Bernhard ...
She sow had a nose for art. Pigcasso, the wildly talented pig who sold over $1 million of her paintings and was hailed “the most successful non-human artist in world history,” has died at age 8.
Hyperallergic: An Artist and Amateur Scientist Who Painted Animal Camouflage and Angels
Before coming across an unusually calligraphic painting of a mountain, Williams College Museum of Art Curator Kevin Murphy considered the turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Handerson Thayer “a one ...
wsbt: From butchering to painting: meet animal blood finger painter "Butcher Bob"
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - When it comes to unique pieces of artwork, zoo animals have just the right touch. “Right here we have a fabulous painting,” says Paul Swen, Brand Director at Caldwell Zoo. It’s ...
The Conversation: Painting the unfamiliar: why the first European paintings of Australian animals look so alien to our eyes
In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the ...
Painting the unfamiliar: why the first European paintings of Australian animals look so alien to our eyes