1. Animals In Art
By: Victoria Judson

2. The History
• Artists have always created both drawings
and paintings of animals.
• Animals have been used in art since the
Stone Ages and still are in modern day
societies.

3. Stone Ages
• During the Stone Ages, caves were
decorated with the animals that Stone Age
men hunted for food.

4. Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Egyptian artists used animal
heads as representation of their gods.

5. Symbolism
• Examples of tribal art from every continent
combine animal and human features as a
symbol of the bond between man and his
natural environment.

6. Middle Ages
• Animals were also used in the Middle
Ages as mythical beasts.
• They were also used as decoration of
manuscripts.

7. 17th and 18th Century
• In the 17th century, hunting scenes
illustrating dramatic life and death
struggles between man and beast were
popular.
• In the 18th century, artists celebrated the
natural beauty and majestic power of
animals in their natural habitats.

8. 19th and 20th Century
• In the 19th century, Victorian artists painted
meaningful images of their livestock and
domestic pets.
• 20th century artists explored ranges of
animal genres and invented a few more of
their own.

9. Albrecht Durrer
1471-1528
• His father taught him how to draw.
• Saw animals as though they were worthy
of attention.
• One of the greatest renaissance artists.
• Famous for his graphics, printmaking and
illustration work.
• Signed his work with interesting
monograms.

10. Albrecht Durrer
1471-1528

11. George Stubbs
1724-1806
• Greatest painter of horses.
• Equestrian art- ‘Sporting Art’.
• Tended to be overlooked.
– Hunting, shooting and racing.
• Set against traditional views of the English
country side.
– Carefully incorporated into the landscape.
• Tones.

12. George Stubbs
1724-1806

13. Franz Marc
1880-1916
• Expressionist painter who formed ‘Der Blaue
Reiter’ group.
– Artistic movement who were searching for
spiritual truth through their art.
• He believed colour had a vocabulary of
emotional keys that we instinctively
understand.
– Much like the way music is understood.
• His choice of subject and colour raised his art
to a higher ‘spiritual’ place.

14. Franz Marc
1880-1916

15. Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
• Picasso visually disects the image of a bull to
discover its essential presence through a
progressive analysis of its form.
• Lithographic Ink.
• Uses the bull as a metaphor throughout his
artwork.
– Refuses to pinned down as to its meaning.
• Makes different ‘plates’ as development of his
work.

16. Pablo Picasso
1881-1973

17. Sources
• http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/animal
s_in_art/animals_in_art.htm
• http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/animal
s_in_art/george_stubbs/george_stubbs.htm
• http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/animal
s_in_art/durer/albrecht_durer.htm
• http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/animal
s_in_art/franz_marc/franz_marc.htm
• http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/animal
s_in_art/pablo_picasso/pablo_picasso.htm