Lost without Animals

Giraffe

British Museum

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.

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

伊藤正雄『二匹の猫とレモン』

𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗙𝗮𝘂𝗹𝗸𝗻𝗲𝗿. Oxford, Mississippi, 1947.

Source: sotheby’s

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

Art Nouveau seahorse staircase banister located in Noordereiland, Rotterdam

Oil on panel

Issei Suda

artist: Rie Taniguchi

Gleb Nestrelyaev (@gleb_breadd)

'Sparrow with Ivy Berries'by Emiily Sutton, 2021

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.