Animals (real and imaginary) in Art Gallery

Great shots of canine scuptures Ossobuco. Thanks!

I love this photo, the woman and giraffe. I'm keen on photos of people in museums and galleries looking at the art. I vaguely remember starting a thread on that once.

I remember it as well:
http://able2know.org/topic/139499-1

With the delivery medium that's the internet, artists have been able to allow a greater audience more accessibility to their work.

Animals, being a universal and popularly loved genre of art, is a preferred subject of many artists.

And thanks to DJJD for bringing this site up on another thread [http://able2know.org/topic/144368-1] long since buried in the art forum archives, I thought the free digital art site deserved some more traffic.
http://poolga.com/

The wallpaper and art designs themselves are free for the taking, even if you don't have an iPod, an iPhone, or an iPad.

Ooh, thanks for the reminder. Saving that..

Here's a wonderful find -

"Oldest art: A woman views what is claimed to be the oldest known art work at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany. The ivory carving of a mammoth, 35,000 years old, was found in southern Germany."
Photo: Martin Meissner / AP

I wonder if this was a toy or some kind of primitive religious charm?

Thanks for reviving this -

Lion at an entrance of the Bargello museum, Florence -

This lion is a stately guardian of this museum.


A bas-relief of the Babylon god Marduk adorns a wall.The Week
http://tinyurl.com/27mptqg

Straight out of Australia!

http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/193

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.100.105
Despite the description claiming the painting is hanging up in the Getty Museum in LA. A version of this painting is hanging up in the Met. Saw it this evening.

I just love the detail of the dog sniffing the sword simply because it's on a nose level height and because it's there. Such a dog thing to do.

In 1941, American photographer Philippe Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in New York City and they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dali Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, water thrown from a bucket, an easel, a footstool and Salvador Dalí all seemingly suspended in mid-air. The title of the photograph is a reference to Dalí's work Leda Atomica (at that which can be seen in the right of the photograph behind the two cats.) Halsman reported that it took 28 attempts to be satisfied with the result. This is the unretouched version of the photograph that was published in LIFE magazine. In this version the wires suspending the easel and the painting, the hand of the assistant holding the chair and the prop holding up the footstool can still be seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

Bird at the top of a native American totem pole:

For the sake of the cat's, I wonder how many takes it took to get this single photograph. I hope they were compensated well. Plus I hope the cats are trained AND unionized stunt cats.

It's interesting that they did remove the wires for the several of the objects (the chair and the stool for instance) but the deliberately kept the wires for the painting and easel. It's a surrealist work so it may or may not actually hold any extra meaning ... say a physical connection between the art and the artist.

Then we have the lone mysterious assistant (or is it the photographer Philippe Halsman) standing and beyond on the left edge of the photograph. Was he intentionally supposed to be partially in the photograph?

your thread got a mention by me, thanks to mr. jgoldman
http://able2know.org/topic/35896-26#post-4515612

Thanks for the free if incidental advertisement.

Ode to Arella Mae:

Cheval dancing cheek to cheek with Madame Longrée, the piano teacher, in A Town Called Panic, a really cute French animated film from 2009.

Watching it right now. Okay, technically it's paused right now....

A donkey extra brushing his teeth (from the same movie):

Yes, I wondered that, too, tsar.
And how much they might have "enjoyed" the experience.

I somehow don't think Dali had much empathy for animals.
Someone (it might have been you) posted this on A2K a while ago ...
Poor anteater.
Anything for a stunt, I guess?

osso, Your lion got me to thinking about the lions in front of the 42nd Street Library:

Love dem particular lions..