Being a swine too

Who cares about what life? Nonhuman animal life becoming a part of yet another supposedly ethical environmental arts project. Insa Winkler: The Acorn Pig … Growing and growing up http://www.insawinkler.de/files/index_E.php?id=98 Can one really underlie nohuman animal life – or (might aswell) human life – the understanding of ethics and of arts that anybody might hold…Continue readingBeing a swine too

Farangis paints the Spanish Dog

Spanish Dogs, other Dogs and other Animals, by Farangis Yegane A Spanish Dog by Farangis Yegane, 1994 A. Dogs: http://www.farangis.de/dogs/ B. My dog is not a hombre http://www.farangis.de/dogs/my_dog/my_dog.htm C. Observant One http://www.farangis.de/dogs/observant/observant_D.htm Two http://www.farangis.de/dogs/observant/observant_E.htmContinue readingFarangis paints the Spanish Dog

Selling nonhuman animal life

Why it sells? Troutsite http://www.troutsite.com/art-main.html is a site by an artist who successfully convinces his viewers that he is actually appreciating and probably even “scientifically respecting” nonhuman animals. See artist at: aldrichart.org Alongside his naturalistic artistic praise of Linnaeus’s taxonomic system (the man who came up with the category “Homo sapiens” …) the artist sells…Continue readingSelling nonhuman animal life

Jackie Ormes, brilliant cartoonist

Torchy in Heartbeats “Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist”: http://www.jackieormes.com/ a biography by Nancy Goldstein “Jackie Ormes’ cartoons often responded to events that were important to the black community, such as the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi. Till was killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.” From…Continue readingJackie Ormes, brilliant cartoonist

Unknown arts

So you are not an artist “A” said: Art is what people consider to be art. I said that such a statement would not be logical, because, not all isn’t art what people don’t consider to be art. Also, I said, calling something “art” doesn’t really give any manmade object the privilege associated with something…Continue readingUnknown arts