This playful image of a Newfoundland dog herding puffins through the streets is a color-reduction woodcut by artist Jenny Pope, who features animals as her subjects. I just love the lines, colors, detail, movement, and expression in all her work, but this piece is one of my favorites. I love the way she captured the [...]
This art is created not by hands, but by paws and claws. Paintings featuring the brush strokes and paw prints of animals such as snow leopards and sea lions from zoos around the nation sold Tuesday for surprising amounts of money.
Just a few minutes into the auction, a painting by Cha Cha the Lion [...]
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Koi, an ornamental fish which enthusiasts liken to a moving work of art, are gaining popularity across Asia thanks to changing lifestyles and increasingly sophisticated tastes, experts say.
Asian fish connoisseurs treasure koi — domesticated varieties of the common carp — as Europeans would a painting by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, they say.
“I look at [...]
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Brittany wields her paintbrush with confidence, slapping it roughly against the canvas to produce streaks of green or smears of orange. With apparent pride, she steps back, inspects her work — and extends her trunk to receive a freshly loaded paintbrush.
Brittany, an African elephant, is doing her small part to pay her way at the [...]
Artist David Rogers builds insects that are roughly accurate in shape and proportion. But when it comes to size, he tosses authenticity out the window.
Rogers is installing a collection of 15 bugs this week at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle. And their size—as big as a rhinoceros, or bigger—not to mention their varnished cedar and [...]
The story of a dog being starved to death as part of an art exhibition appears to have been falsely reported by Costa Rican newspaper The Nation, according to new sources. I reported the appalling story here last week among global outrage about the exhibit and a reported invitation to repeat the work elsewhere.
It has [...]
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You might not be able to afford a Picasso, a Van Gogh or a Monet — but for $30 you can own your very own painting by Brittany the elephant.
She’s a resident at the Milwaukee County Zoo, where trainers encourage her to paint as a way to keep her mentally stimulated. She holds a paintbrush [...]
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You can find more information about the Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project here.
Here’s a bit of info from their website:
The Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project (AEACP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to aiding people in need and to saving the diminishing number of Asian elephants left on our planet through its work with [...]
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Citing threats of violence by animal rights activists, the San Francisco Art Institute said Saturday that it is canceling a controversial exhibition that included video clips of animals being bludgeoned to death, as well as a public forum it had scheduled to address the controversy.
“We’ve gotten dozens of threatening phone calls that targeted specific staff [...]
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While growing up in Cuba, Fabian Peña became fascinated by the patterns left by bug splatter on the floors and walls of his home.
“My grandfather would swat insects with a rolled-up copy of Granma, and their squashed remains made an impression on me,” he recalls. “Later on in my work, I began giving bugs the [...]
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