Lost without Animals

[beatricecenci]

Merab Abramishvili (Georgian, 1957-2006)

Giraffe

[daughterofchaos]

Woodblock print by Ding Liangxian 丁亮先

Qing dynasty, ca. 1735-1750, Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China

Arbutus and praying mantis, with inscription, printed in colour and gauffrage on paper

British Museum

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Our English Coasts (‘Strayed Sheep’)

Artist: William Holman Hunt (English, 1827–1910)

Date: 1852

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Description

William Holman Hunt updates the long-standing religious motif of the flock in peril to express anxieties at the time about the leadership and security of Britain. This work was one of the first Pre-Raphaelite pictures to be created outside in the open air, rather than in the studio. Hunt took nearly five months to paint it. Painting outside revealed new effects of colour and light, such as the bluish shadows. These excited French modern artists in 1855 when Hunt exhibited the picture in Paris.

[no-ones-stupid-gallery]

Walrus With Ivory Tusks, c. 1950. Inuit Culture. Stone, Ivory and Pigment. 8,3 cm x 17,8 cm x 13,3 cm.

[holespoles]

Two Cats and a Lemon by Masao Ito

伊藤正雄『二匹の猫とレモン』

[tyger-land]

𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗙𝗮𝘂𝗹𝗸𝗻𝗲𝗿. Oxford, Mississippi, 1947.

[robert-hadley]

A FOSSIL FISH MORTALITY PLAQUE - From the Eocene (circa 50 million years ago)

Source: sotheby’s

[birdologist]

what if i let myself get back into doing just gestures. it might fix me.

[canidfigures]

☆ imari english bulldog paperweight by royal crown derby

[toyastales]

Art Nouveau seahorse staircase banister located in Noordereiland, Rotterdam

[canidfigures]

☆ vixen with cubs by royal copenhagen

[psikonauti]

Georg Wilson (British, b. 1998)

The Offering, 2024

Oil on panel

[nobrashfestivity]

Issei Suda

[p0laroid-sx-70]

diving cranes

artist: Rie Taniguchi

[campsis]

Gleb Nestrelyaev (@gleb_breadd)

[holespoles]

'Sparrow with Ivy Berries'by Emiily Sutton, 2021

[redscharlach]

It's 15th February, which is apparently World Hippo Day, so here's an excellent hippo I saw at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris last year. It was designed by François-Xavier Lalanne in 1968–1969, and is in fact a bathroom in disguise! Its body opens to become a bathtub and its head flips up to reveal a handbasin.