Favorite animal painting/painters?

Ernst Haeckel.

>>5020343
Look how freaking smug number 12 is

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>>5020355
Ferengi ass looking motherfuckers

Carl Rungius

Franz Marc, is one of my favourite painters of all time & used colours as symbolism to depict a particular emotion, like yellow for joy & blue for sorrow. This piece is called The Fate of the Animals & was one of his final works before heading off to war, where he was killed in battle.

Sparrows and wisteria
Ohara Koson

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Fudge

A Waterloo, 1906.

>>5020822
I've forgot mention that this painting depicts a the legendary dog Gelert who protected a child from being eaten by a wolf. I love the worried expression of the hound.

This was the 1st ever reconstruction of a mammoth that was made in the 19th century. Looking at it makes me laugh every time.

>>5020834
This one was made in 1515 by Albrecht Dürer who never set foot in Africa & made this masterpiece.

>>5020336 (OP)
Any1 know why ornitholocigal art looks oriental-ish sometimes (flattened washed colors, stiltedness) (ignoring backround ofc), preservational issue, fewer materials?

>>5020847
I assume you're talking about Audubon. I can think of a few reasons for one they're water colors not oil paints they weren't as vivid to begin with and some bleeding through is to be expected. For two and this is a big one he killed almost everything he painted and then held them up with wire wrapping to paint them so they either look stiff/dead or are posed too dramatically.

>>5020854
I was. I’d surmised this, but held a half-hope of stylistic aping of some to me unknown master who sabotaged normal artistic development in this insular area. Did someone like that exist

>>5021045
As far as I know he was mostly self taught. So that itself might have played a role since a lot of weird aberrations pop up like that with just people who aren't being taught to do things a certain way.

Upon further reflection Audubon died before Japan even opened trade so there's not even much of a chance he could encounter any of japanese print art that the French art scene became obsessed with the decade after.

>>5020835
That's pretty good considering the circumstances desu . Imagine just getting second- or third-hand descriptions of the weird creases and bumps on a rhinoceros skin when the only thing you've ever seen IRL that comes close are some local lizards or turtles.