Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Art by ELEPHANTS


http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Asian_Elephant_Art_Conservation_Project.html

komar and melamid do "art by elephants"-- abstract paintings by elephants in thailand. it's fascinating.

10 comments:

TheBlueMask said...

"abstract is dead"
show me a neo-classicist elephant painter and I`ll be impressed lol

Anonymous said...

My sister actually has some elephant art, is pretty good.

D.Macri said...

Komar and Melamid Elephant Art?!

Lorne Roberts said...

actually, the elephants began their abstractions after finding neo-classicism too limiting in its range of subjects and ideas.

"we wanted something freer, more expressive," said elly the elephant, "something where we removed ourselves from having to slavishly reproduce the figure or the landscape. we found that in abstraction."

or something like that...

Anonymous said...

LOL!

D. Sky Onosson said...

Hey, I've watched numerous episodes of Pocoyo, and Elly has never said a word before!

TheBlueMask said...

you tickled my ivories with that one wolfie!

D.Macri said...

Is that quote directly from K+M ?

Lorne Roberts said...

no. it's from me.

Lorne Roberts said...

or, from elly the elephant i guess.