Notes about Animals in Art

• Artists have always drawn and painted animals.

• Stone age men decorated their caves with the images of the animals that they hunted for food.

• The ancient Egyptians artists depicted many of their gods with the heads of animals.

• Examples of tribal art from every continent combine animal and human features to symbolise man's bond with his natural environment.

• In the Middle Ages, artists used mythical beasts to decorate medieval manuscripts while commonplace creatures often took on secret symbolic associations.

• In the 17th century art, hunting scenes illustrating dramatic life and death struggles between man and beast, became a popular subject.

• 18th century artists chose to celebrate the natural beauty and majestic power of animals in their natural habitats.

• In the 19th century, Victorian artists painted sentimental pictures of their domestic pets and livestock.

• The artists of the 20th century explored the entire range of animal genres and invented a few more of their own.

Drawing Animals

Art Movements
Impressionism	Post Impressionism	Cubism	Fauvism	Expressionism
Portraiture
Vincent Van Gogh		Frida Kahlo		Francis Bacon
Animals in Art
Albrecht Durer	George Stubbs		Franz Marc	Pablo Picasso
Still Life
Willem Kalf		Harmen Steenwyck		Chardin
Juan Gris		Giorgio Morandi		Henri Matisse
Townscapes
El Greco	CR Mackintosh	Paul Cezanne	Claude Monet	Vincent Van Gogh
Graphic Designers
Cassandre		Abram Games		Niklaus Troxler

Art Appreciation