The drawing left by the paws, trunks, or other parts of the bodies of animals is compared by fans with the paintings of famous expressionists. And the owners of animals organize popular exhibitions and sell works at auctions. We present the most talented animals who not only know how to draw but do it skillfully so that their paintings go under the hammer for a lot of money. Representatives of the animal world paint paintings that cost more than the masterpieces of famous human artists, and the owners can rest in peace, apply paint or play at Booi Casino while the animals earn millions of dollars.
Elephants of Thailand
At the end of 1990, the creative group “Komar and Melamid,” created by American artists of Russian origin Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, launched the AEACP Asian Elephant Protection Project. The idea of the project is to give Asian elephants a new job, as the animals were left without work after the ban on deforestation. Artists have developed a unique system for training elephants by teaching them how to draw in Thailand. Creative shows featuring these animals are popular with tourists and residents. Despite the possible clumsiness and overall size of these animals, the cost of the work is estimated from $ 200 to $ 2000.
Chimpanzee Congo
A chimpanzee named Kongo is one of the most famous animals shown in the artistic craft. In 2005, three of his paintings were auctioned off and fetched $14,000.
The creative abilities of the Congo were discovered by the British zoologist Desmond Morris. He was the first to offer the chimpanzee a pencil and a piece of paper. It soon turned out that Kongo could draw a circle and even mastered the basics of composition. Kongo did not immediately make friends with paints – he first sprinkled them on paper. However, after two years of intense training, he learned how to hold the brush and mix colors properly. Kongo painted exclusively within the canvas, without stepping beyond its borders. He knew exactly when to make the last brushstroke and complete the next painting.
The first exhibition of the Congo was held in 1957 and caused a great public outcry. The exhibition of unique works of chimpanzees in 1951 made a splash, and even Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso were interested in his work. During his life, the chimpanzee created more than 400 paintings and drawings, and in recent years he was so addicted to drawing that he could throw a real tantrum when Morris carried away brushes and paints.
Dolphins Argas, Gabia, and Gloria
Dolphins are considered one of the most intelligent representatives of the mammal family. Many of them are prone to creative activities, so artist dolphins are not uncommon, and some achieve great success in the pictorial field. For example, Argas, Gloria, and Gabia are the inhabitants of the dolphinarium at the Lithuanian Maritime Museum in Klaipeda.
The trainer helps the dolphins to draw: he holds a sheet of paper on a solid substrate and a palette in his hands. But the dolphins choose the color of the paint on their own. Holding a brush in their teeth, they apply it with chaotic strokes. Moreover, each artist has a special technique, and the viewer can easily recognize whose authorship this or that picture belongs to. Argas, the pack leader, prefers bright colors and writes with broad, confident strokes. Gloria’s drawings are airy and graceful, while Gabia’s paintings are distinguished by their special skill and liveliness. Their work is periodically put up for sale as part of charity auctions in support of animals and the environment.
Jack Russell Tilly
Tillamook Cheddar, or simply Tilly, may well compete with two-legged artists. Tilly has 20 solo exhibitions in the USA and Europe. The dog has repeatedly become a guest of popular TV shows, and articles about it have appeared on the pages of such authoritative publications as Esquire and The Guardian. In 2006, even a biographical book was published in which Tilly’s creative path was described.
Its author is F. Bowman Hastie III, concurrently the owner of Tilly. True, he prefers to call himself not the owner, but an assistant, who enjoys relaxing in Nitropolis 3 free play while Tilly works miracles. You can’t do without Tilly’s assistant: she “paints” her masterpieces on special canvases. In this way, Tilly creates something like lithographs, the cost of which can reach several thousand dollars. To prepare such a canvas, it is necessary to fix a sheet of carbon paper on watercolor paper and wrap the blank with a protective film. The protective film is necessary, so Tilly does not destroy the painting in the creation process: she does not use brushes – only claws and teeth. The dog scratches and bites the top layer of the workpiece – carbon paper, leaving prints on the bottom layer – watercolor paper.