#monkeycruise

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Forgot to post the yesterday!

As a the end of the year draws near I remembered that #MonkeyCruise didn't have that many entries this so far! So we made a whole stream around it.

Paranthropus, Rooneyia and Anadoluvius

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this summer i saw this painting of a lion eating a baby and my mind immediately went to joschua knuppe's monkey classical painting series species are Anachlysictis and Cebupithecia (who should probably be a bit furrier and stockier)

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Results from the #paleostream!

A spec evo wish by Bear Rangell, Embolotherium (another wish), Saadanius (newest #MonkeyCruise) and Protuberum.

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Results from the #paleostream

Imperoeocetus (spec evo whale wish), Caipirasuchus hiding from Baurusuchus, Torukjara and Buronius, a new #MonkeyCruise piece.

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A piece from the #MonkeyCruise series, in which I take classic pieces from art history and replace humans with extinct primates and alter the scenes accordingly.

Here it's Mesopithecus witnessing a beached Otodus megalodon.

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Obligatory post about the newest #MonkeyCruise piece!

The original is based on a painting by Elihu Vedder, an American artist living from 1836 to 1932. He was producing work that is put into the category of symbolism these days.

Elihu produced some really nice work but his painting "The Questioner of the Sphinx", that I used here as reference, is probably my favorite. You can read more about his work here: https://www.incollect.com/articles/the-mysterious-art-of-elihu-vedder

The primate I took for this image is the just recently described Buronius manfredschmidi, a small, early hominid from the Miocene of the Hammerschmiede locality. It's not known from much material, just some teeth and a patella, but it's unusually small and perfect for this piece.

Hammerschmiede preserves a river system with all sorts of critters, most famously another hominid, Danuvius guggenmosi. So it wasn't really a desert like on the original painting, which is why I also have some forest in the background.

(artwork by Mauricio Anton)

The setting which I imagine here is that after a larger flooding event, maybe caused by rain storms up in the alps, leading to this scene of mud and exposed old bones of a deinother. It's also inspired by current events in Bavaria where heavy rain is causing lots of flooding, thanks climate change.

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Results from the #paleostream Meganthropus (a new #MonkeyCruise piece), Anachlysictis and Demandosaurus

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On todays #paleostream MONKEY CRUISE RETURNS

With Ekembo and Pachylemur

For those who don't know, #MonkeyCruise is a series of paintings in which I turn classic positions from art history into paleoart pieces with extinct primates.

The Ekembo piece, as you probably have guesses already, is a homage to Leonardo da Vinci's "Last supper". One of his most famous works. I had my eyes on this for a while but only recently had an idea what to depict it with.

Ekembo is a great ape from the Miocene that was found on Rusinga island, Kenya. There wer volcanoes in the area which they also snuck into this piece. The apes here are gathering on this log because a migrating ant colony is crossing it, a welcome snack bar.

The second piece is based on a painting by Finnish painter Eero Järnefelt, called "Under the Yoke".

Pachylemur was a large lemur from the Holocene of Madagascar, it#s extinction is most likely human caused. Two causes are shown here: habitat loss, thanks to slash and burn agriculture and bush meat hunting.