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The Art of Dogs

Posted : 7/17/2007 4:53:03 PM

What is your favorite art about dogs, or featuring dogs?

Here are some videos about Bill Wegman, with his wonderful Weimaraners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v92g8K1kCq8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LCmVg5ExyM

spiritdogs

Posted : 7/17/2007 6:48:02 PM

I like old dog prints...

http://www.antique-dog-pictures.co.uk/images/giants/stbernardpuppy-t.jpg
http://www.collectorsprints.com/spaniel/clumber/
http://www.collectorsprints.com/italian-greyhound/

tacran

Posted : 7/17/2007 7:02:54 PM

What a coincidence that you should start this thread. I was going to start one to tell folks about this cool site I found. It's an "on-line art gallery" that was started by a couple in Portland, Oregon. A recent "show" was ALL dog art. I really enjoyed checking out the website the other day.

Artists

icked a breed on a first-come/first-served basis. The creativity of the

ieces is amazing. It's fun to look for your favorite breeds. They have so many -- even the most unusual ones. It's a great idea -- many more people can see their work all over the world, instead of just a brick-and-morter gallery in a town somewhere.

It's called the Wurst Gallery, and the show was called "Wurstminster:"
[linkhttp://www.thewurstgallery.com/wurstminster.html]http://www.thewurstgallery.com/wurstminster.html[/link]

If the link doesn't work, just go to [linkhttp://www.wurstgallery.com]www.wurstgallery.com[/link] and you can easily find your way to the dog section!

Karen Frenette

Posted : 7/17/2007 7:36:30 PM

ORIGINAL: tacran

What a coincidence that you should start this thread. I was going to start one to tell folks about this cool site I found. It's an "on-line art gallery" that was started by a couple in Portland, Oregon. A recent "show" was ALL dog art. I really enjoyed checking out the website the other day.

Artists icked a breed on a first-come/first-served basis. The creativity of the ieces is amazing. It's fun to look for your favorite breeds. They have so many -- even the most unusual ones. It's a great idea -- many more people can see their work all over the world, instead of just a brick-and-morter gallery in a town somewhere.

It's called the Wurst Gallery, and the show was called "Wurstminster:"
[linkhttp://www.thewurstgallery.com/wurstminster.html]http://www.thewurstgallery.com/wurstminster.html[/link]

If the link doesn't work, just go to [linkhttp://www.wurstgallery.com]www.wurstgallery.com[/link] and you can easily find your way to the dog section!

How HORRIBLE!!!!!!! Did you really look at those pictures? The Toller has a baby duck in its mouth with its teeth in the duck and blood running down it. The Am Staff handler has a hook for a hand and the hand is in the dog's mouth! That's not art it's a disgrace.

Ixas_girl

Posted : 7/17/2007 8:21:47 PM

Spiritdogs, Those are sweet! I love the St. Bernard puppy you linked to, how cute:

My grandad raised hunting dogs, and had a number of beautiful prints of pointers in his house. Hmmm, I wonder what happened to those?!

ORIGINAL: tacran
What a coincidence that you should start this thread. I was going to start one to tell folks about this cool site I found.

I love when that happens! Fun images on that site ... my fave is the little brown dog playing with the big blue beetle!

Reminds me ... I really like PWCA's dog art, especially the peice in her avatar ... I think it's ceramic?

DumDog

Posted : 7/17/2007 8:26:45 PM

yeah some of those were just.... hmm... you know?
being an artist i know what it means to express yourself in art... and some of that looks as if it was painted by peta people......

Ixas_girl

Posted : 7/17/2007 8:33:59 PM

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,.. and the akitas are wearing little girl's dresses
... and the bull mastiff is a space age android with a bent hot dog laser pistol ..... lol

... something for everyone! [

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But if none of that floats your boat ... c'mon! Post some stuff you'd prefer for people to see!

Liesje

Posted : 7/17/2007 8:39:54 PM

I'm really into photography so I check flickr groups almost every day for new photos. My favorites I download and save to my dog screen saver folder. I'll dig up a few of my faves....

ETA: OK, these are some of my faves. I have about 300 photos in the pool at the moment (if anyone is interested in the screen saver, let me know):

alieliza

Posted : 7/17/2007 8:45:05 PM

Liesje,
I too love photography.

I'd love to see your favorites.

DumDog

Posted : 7/17/2007 9:04:35 PM

ORIGINAL: Ixas_girl

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,.. and the akitas are wearing little girl's dresses
... and the bull mastiff is a space age android with a bent hot dog laser pistol ..... lol

... something for everyone! []

But if none of that floats your boat ... c'mon! Post some stuff you'd prefer for people to see!

true true [

] i thought maybe DogDance was over reacting a bit, i only glanced at the page.. didnt really care for what i saw as far as style went... and i had to search to find the ones she mentioned but THOSE were just... creepy.

btw

i want a copy of that one!!

Liesje

Posted : 7/17/2007 9:54:51 PM

Here is a .zip file of my favorite dog photos. I got them all from public photo albums and use them as my screen saver.

http://www.dutchbingo.net/personal/Dog%20Screen%20Saver%20Photos.zip

Dave Hill

Posted : 7/17/2007 9:57:51 PM

DumDog

Posted : 7/17/2007 10:18:05 PM

thanks Liesje!

and i always liked the dogs playing poker art... and other similar ones... a lot of that inspires my own art with dogs lol
my husband wouldnt let me, but if i had my way i would sooo totally have a lot of those poker dogs framed and hanging on my wall lol

Ixas_girl

Posted : 7/17/2007 11:11:21 PM

Leisje,
Beautiful selection of photos! [

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silverserpher ... [sm=rofl.gif]

Jeff Koon's dogs:

tacran

Posted : 7/17/2007 11:57:51 PM

I just want to apologize to anyone who was offended by anything on the site that I referred to in my post. I admit, I didn't look at ALL the pieces; I just looked up some of my own favorite breeds, and I found them to be mostly comical or clever. Had I seen the ones some of you referred to, I would've either included a warning, or probably not posted the link at all.

I found the link in an article in "Bark" magazine, which is pretty respectable, I think, so I had no idea it would include anything objectionable. Again my apologies, and if anyone thinks I should edit my original post to remove the link, I'll be happy to do so. The last thing I want to do is upset anyone!