animals in art
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Animals in Art
Albrecht Durer
Pablo Picasso
George Stubbs
• Throughout history artists have always created drawings and paintings of animals.
Animals in Art
• Stone Age men decorated their caves with the images of the animals that they hunted for food and encountered.
• These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old! Lascaux Caves, France
Animals in Art
• The Ancient Egyptian artists depicted many of their gods with the heads of animals.
Animals in Art
• Examples of tribal art from every continent combine animal and human features to symbolize man's bond with his natural environment.
Animals in Art
• In the Middle Ages, artists used mythical beasts to decorate medieval manuscripts while commonplace creatures often took on secret symbolic associations.
Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528
• This famous Renaissance Saw animals as though they were worthy of attention.
Animals in Art
• In the 17th century art, hunting scenes illustrating dramatic life and death struggles between man and beast, became a popular subject.
Paul de Vos, Staghunt
Animals in Art, George Stubbs
• 18th century artists chose to celebrate the natural beauty and majestic power of animals in their natural habitats.
Animals in Art, Sir Edwin Landseer, Distinguished Member of the Human Society
• In the 19th century, Victorian artists painted sentimental pictures of their domestic pets and livestock.
Animals in Art
• The artists of the 20th century explored the entire range of animal genres and invented a few more of their own.
Franz Marc
Pablo Picasso
Andrew Wyeth
Alex Colville
Andy Warhol, Endangered Series
Stephen Huneck
Graffiti Artist, Roa
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