Komar and Melamid Elephant were doing abstract work. I think they may have trained this elephant to paint this specific painting, I just hope it was treats and not a hook they used.
And by the way, James has been painting with his nose for years now. He hasn't got the same recognition as the elephant artists, despite his superior ability.
"The above-linked video is "true" in the sense that it represents the real phenomenon of elephants who have learned to paint, with the caveats that "painting" in this sense means the animals outline and color specific drawings they've been taught to replicate (rather than abstractly making free-form portraits of whatever tickles their pachydermic fancies at the moment), they work under the direction of trainers, they don't all exhibit the same level of proficiency, and the quality of their output can be highly variable."
So it's not a hoax, in that it really is an elephant and not someone else doing the painting. That is, if you can believe what you read on the internet.
My friend worked on the music for a documentary his friend had been making in Asia about work she was doing. She was teaching orphaned elephants who had lived trauma to play music. This place was, as I understood it, an Elephant orphanage where the elephants also learned how to paint. Apparently they have amazing intuition with the arts.
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I saw this before. I think I sent them some info on Komar and Melamid
yeah, no doubt.
but... this isn't, like, "real" art, right?
Komar and Melamid Elephant were doing abstract work. I think they may have trained this elephant to paint this specific painting, I just hope it was treats and not a hook they used.
And by the way, James has been painting with his nose for years now. He hasn't got the same recognition as the elephant artists, despite his superior ability.
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Elephants are interesting. Even if it has been trained to paint just this image, I think that's still pretty incredible.
It is, but the freestyle painting seems more natural and a greater phenomena to me.
I thought this one was found to be a hoax.
Here's what Snopes.com has to say:
"The above-linked video is "true" in the sense that it represents the real phenomenon of elephants who have learned to paint, with the caveats that "painting" in this sense means the animals outline and color specific drawings they've been taught to replicate (rather than abstractly making free-form portraits of whatever tickles their pachydermic fancies at the moment), they work under the direction of trainers, they don't all exhibit the same level of proficiency, and the quality of their output can be highly variable."
So it's not a hoax, in that it really is an elephant and not someone else doing the painting. That is, if you can believe what you read on the internet.
My friend worked on the music for a documentary his friend had been making in Asia about work she was doing. She was teaching orphaned elephants who had lived trauma to play music. This place was, as I understood it, an Elephant orphanage where the elephants also learned how to paint. Apparently they have amazing intuition with the arts.
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