Confined into animal

In sepia tone contemplative gesture with delicate hands and feet, Crystal Morey creates totemic ceramic figurines that reflect our complex relationship with the environment.


“The animals I use are either extinct or have become endangered due to human impact in this era of great acceleration since the Industrial Revolution. The concepts behind the work are about our contemporary environmental issues while the visual structure pursues a totemic feel.

I am looking at visual material including Native American ceremonial masks and regalia, Byzantine and Renaissance devotional painting, secular portraits and altarpieces, and Egyptian antiquities.

I am interested in how human advancements in technology, agriculture, and urbanization have imposed stress on natural ecosystems and the species that live within them.” — Crystal Morey

Read more: Crystal Morey’s statement

What is the adverb for animal? wordhippo

Danse, plonge, sent, marche

Ô Ours

Dancing bear

Allan Sheutiapik

 Jamesie Kelly

Johnny Papigatook

Mosesee Pootoogook

Napachie Ashoona

Diving bear

Alariaq Shaa

Isaaci Petaulassie

Joanie Ragee

Killiktee Killiktee

Tim Pee

Scenting bear

Ashevak Adla

 

 

 

Kakee Ningeosiak

Michael Samayualie

 

Tim Pee

Tony Oqutaq

Walking bear

Ashevak Tunnillie

Killiktee Killiktee

Kooyoo Peter

Ottokie Samayualie

Tim Ezekiel

Source: Fine Inuit carvings

Ours blanc de François Pompon

François Pompon (1855-1933) was a pioneer of modern stylized animalier sculpture.

Ours blanc de François Pompon (1922)

« An important question to ask yourself when photographing sculpture is whether you should try to show off the artist's vision by photographing the sculpture as accurately as possible, or whether you should capture it in a way that expresses what you see in it.»

Read more: How to Photograph Sculpture


+Ours blancs de François Pompon

Boogie-woogie circus

Heinrich Kley (1863-1945) was a German artist. His pen drawings are delicious and sooo expressive.

Made from 16 gauge steel wire after Heinrich Kley {source}

Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk


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J'ai trouvé un peintre de requin.

Richard Ellis is currently recognized as a foremost artist of marine and natural history subjects.

Whale Shark

« From his youth spent on the beaches of Long Island USA, Richard Ellis, born in 1938, has been deeply involved with the sea and the animals that live in it.

As a marine biologist, he brings to his art a unique respect and understanding for the ocean.

In order to portray the fishes, whales and sharks that he does well, he has studied them from every vantage point.

Trained as a scuba diver [oh yeah] and an underwater photographer, Richard Ellis has spent hundreds of hours in, on, and under the ocean, in search of his subjects and the accurate representation of their environment.

 Hours of painstaking research go into each painting, so that his work is not only scientifically accurate, but strikingly beautiful as well.

For him there is no distinction between art and illustration. [Interesting.]

A painting done to illustrate a magazine article will often end up in a prestigious private collection or in a museum.

Because his work is so precise, it has been used to fulfill the demanding requirements of scientific papers, but his sense of the quality of luminescent underwater light and composition are so dramatic that his paintings transcend illustration and become art in its purest sense.

In 1974, Richard Ellis spent one year researching the ten paintings of the great whales that would win him world-wide recognition. These paintings, done for Audubon magazine, are considered the most moving and accurate pictures of whales ever done.

Richard Ellis is an author as well as an artist. He has written dozens of scientific and popular magazines. He is also the author and illustrator of The Book of Sharks.»


Info source: ro gallery

 Bull Shark (1977)

 Great White Shark (1991)

 Carcharias taurus

 Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus)

 Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus)

 Chain Dogfish Small Shark

 Great White Shark Portrait

 Tiger Shark

I've never had the fantasy to go underwater to see sharks. But if the mood took me, I would dress like this:

 An old dive suit: Coolest submarines showcase