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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