Bruno Pontiroli's absurd paintings explore the sometimes grotesque tension between the familiar and the uncanny.

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It’s only our brains — and perhaps, our fingers — that have put humans on top of Earth’s food chain. Without those advantages, we’d be hard-pressed to compete with just about any other species. After ...

The female swine became interested in paintbrushes lying around her pen at Farm Sanctuary South Africa Picasso the man was a charismatic, albeit misogynistic, genius artist. Pigcasso the painting pig ...

Madhubani art is said to date back to the time of the Ramayana. According to legend, King Janaka, father of Sita, commissioned artists to paint his daughter’s wedding with Rama on the walls of his ...

Tiger, oil on canvas, 1912. The artist’s vibrant animal paintings were based on careful study, including hours spent observing big cats at the Berlin Zoo. Lenbachhaus Munich, Donation of the Bernhard ...