Exotic Animal Art

Exotic Animal Art

Animal Paintings

The modern lifestyle is often bereft of wildlife – both in the home and in its surroundings. The migratory nature of work and the unreliable nature of the housing market has driven up the numbers of professional people who rent (which drives down the numbers of UK dwellings that are actually allowed to have pets in): and, of course, it's driven everyone into or around cities, where the only wildlife worth seeing is usually trying to steal stuff from bins. Animal paintings can offer a bit of a compromise, allowing something of the wild back into our all too urban dwellings.

People often forget that they are part of the animal kingdom too. And yet the urge to be in the wild, or to surround ourselves with images of the wild, is never far away from us: so why not celebrate it, rather than suppress it, by allowing the natural theme to run through one's home? Animal paintings are a perfect counterpoint to the human domestic environment – a reminder, not just of one's wild past, but of the beautiful things and creatures that still exist, miles away from office windows and homeward commutes.

Animal paintings can remind their owners of loved associations: perhaps a person rode a horse, until adult life took over; or maybe he or she is lucky enough to still have some kind of contact with horses. In either case, animal paintings featuring horses will be a constant link between the sometimes fraught daily environment of the home and the peaceful haven of the stables. Animal paintings showing dolphins and whales speak to sea lovers like nothing else, while the ubiquitous cats and dogs of our everyday existence can be immortalised on canvas in ways that remind their owners of special times spent with loved pets now passed away.

Animal paintings are also a great way to let some more exotic beasts into the home – elephants, rhinoceros, giraffe. The kind of things a person may never have seen outside of a zoo, depicted in their natural habitat. Natural habitat is a big part of animal paintings – for a person who has never seen the veldt of Africa, an image of lions on the savannah can come to embody peace and freedom more than anything else in the home. And that, after all, is what paintings are all about – bringing a piece of freedom, of expression and vitality, to a person's walls. Animal paintings, with subjects more vital and free than anything else on earth, achieve that in a truly unique and vivid way.

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<a href=http://www.art2arts.co.uk/animals-/-wildlife/cat_139.html>Animal paintings</a> are a perfect counterpoint to the human domestic environment – a reminder, not just of one's wild past, but of the beautiful things and creatures that still exist, miles away from office windows and homeward commutes.

where are the best art sites?

beach scenes and exotic animal art work.

Here are some top art sites:

Metropolitan Museum: metmuseum.org
Walker Art Cenger: walkerart.org/
Getty Museum: getty.edu
National Gallery of Art: nga.gov
National Gallery, London: nationalgallery.org.uk
Tate Gallery: tate.org.uk
British Museum: thebritishmuseum.ac.uk