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My idea of a pig portrait is something like the picture below…
This is a watercolour by PAT WEAVER, of Dade City, Florida.
Its fairly similar to the kind of work Portrait Xpress Artists do as comissions of pets, from a photo.
This is art, and I like it. What comes below- really, this ain’t art.
I heard today about something very strange…. “pet art” by a Belgian Artist in China.
Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye currently (Nov 08) employs workers to tattoo pigs in an “Art Farm” at the outskirts of Beijing, China. Delvoye has staff consisting of local farmers to raise the pigs.. and professionals to tattoo them with cartoons or symbols. The pigs would then be displayed at art exhibitions and their skins sold to collectors after they were slaughtered.
Very wierd, and actually I dont like it- putting a tattoo on a live animal has got to hurt, and even if they are sedated, it seems pretty cruel. From a veterinary perspective, this seems very unnecessary and quite sick. Any comments?
photo by opimentas
LIVING ART…
ive found an interesting website which gives details on some interesting art exhibitions about nature. Check out their exhibitions here.
“Living Art’s exhibitions aim to raise awareness of the beauty and wonder of our natural heritage, both in the UK and globally, while at the same time championing the benefits of the natural environment to our wellbeing and the need to protect and conserve that environment.
The exhibitions take an innovative, responsible and, above all, we hope entertaining approach.”
Also, check this, if you want to buy a topiary elephant for your garden?!!
And see this great blog about ART HELPING ANIMALS.
So, I was inspired by the ant art I discussed in a previous post (go check it out, on my site), what other living art is there?
Well, here is some art which is for sale, BY ANIMALS IN A ZOO!!!
The pictures here are just a bit of fun, not related to the links by the way…
reptiles are amazing, look at their colours, they are just not meant for the boring human world where we are all various dull shades of colour! White/black/brown etc, oh how dull people’s skin colur is!
I mean the vividness of the reptiles colour hues and intensity of colour is just incredible! owch!!
photo by goooflex
photo by Nino de Bari
photo by Bill Adams
photo by Farl
and look at this one… okay it isnt really a snake but it looks like one! art in nature!!
photo by Matthew Fang
I really encourage you to have a look at the recent reptile TV series on the BBC, life in cold blood. Click here for some online clips. Click here to see my previous related post on thermal camera photos.
Of course, you can convert any reptile photo into great artwork- even as a painting (?!) using artists such as those at Portrait Xpress.
Have a great day!
well, today I thought about blogging about artists using blood (there is a crazy artist who makes self portraits out of his own blood) but its so distasteful, that you can go and read about that yourself if you like. I thought about blood …given that the stock markets are dropping 10% region today in many places in the world… so everyone is seeing red.
Anyway, on a more uplifting note, what I did decide to write about is elephant dropping art!!
I have long known about paper made from elephant droppings, in Thailand, but I had forgotten about the artist who uses elephant dung in all his artwork!
First, here are some of his paintings. By Chris Olifi.
no woman no cry
holy virgin mary
afrodizzia
For example, this last pieceAfrodizzia, is made 96x 72 inches, is on linen, and is made from paper collage, oil paint, polyester resin, glitter, map pins, and wait for it………………..elephant dung.
Best known for his paintings using elephant dung, Ofili remarked during a radio interview at the Turner Prize award ceremony (about ten years ago), that the important thing was to know whether art was “good art or bad art” and not whether it contained elephant dung. He is, nonetheless, reported to have used this ingredient in all his works so far (almost a guarantee of authenticity), the original smuggled in from Africa, with subsequent needs coming from London’s Zoo and dried in an airing cupboard. He won the Turner prize for his “inventiveness, exuberance, humour and technical richness in painting”.
Another great quote I like is, he says ‘the way I work comes out of experimentation, but it also comes out of a love of painting, a love affair with painting.’ fantastic!
He is a British Born artist of Nigerian origin, and his works are available to buy online and in a few galleries.
So, if you afford it, go buy one.
If you want to have the fun yourself, go do a painting.
And if you don’t know already… for those people who can’t paint but want a personal painting, without the elephant poo (sorry!) then check out my commercial site Portrait Xpress for bespoke art from your photos. Have a good day!
Okay, here is a fun video of a labrador puppy being painted (from a photo) by one of the artists at portrait xpress. Enjoy.
PETS and ART 