Animal Art Redux: Potrait of the Artist as a Horse

Based upon our readership statistics, many of MadSilence’s viewers are intrigued by the stories of Tillie the dog and Congo the chimpanzee, nonhuman artistes extraordinaire.  Now thanks to our readers there is more information to share.

The Museum of Non-Primate Art aims to preserve the movements, marks and sounds of non-primate species and consider them, without prejudice, as modes of aesthetic communication, in the hope of gaining new insights into our world.  Museum staff have studied the artistic expressions of:

• Moles (tunneling patterns in cross section)
• Stallions (pyramidic dung piles)
• A variety of birds (flying formations as performance art)
• Domestic cats (paw paintings)
• Dogs
• Horses (beautiful dung piles), and
• Elephants (trunk drawings in dust).

Consider these animal artists:

Cholla Horse Artist and Video of Cholla painting at his easel
Elephants Painting in Thailand

And finally, there is this advertisement from the Houston Zoo:

ANIMAL PAINTING EXPERIENCE
Looking for a gift for the person that has everything? You can’t find this anywhere else! Animal lovers can watch as one of our animal artists paints their personal masterpiece. Pick the colors and the artist – orangutan or elephant! You will go home with a beautiful piece of animal art to enjoy for years, as well as the incredible experience of seeing it painted.