Contemporary Animal Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Caballo y Personajes (Horse and Characters)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gabriel Mendoza
Caballo y Personajes (Horse and Characters), 2022
Acrylic, ink and gold leaf on paper
Unframed dimensions: 29.75 x 22 inches
Framed dimensions: 39 x 27 inches
This o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Cosmic Twins Return
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
Todd Horton lives and paints full time on Samish Island, Washington. His work involves landscape and wildlife with elements of chance that play between realism and abstraction.
His work was recently featured in Seattles' Davidson Gallery "Exceptional" show and awarded a "Merit of Excellence" from a PONCHO Art Auction. Horton's paintings were also featured at the Museum of Northwest Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shadows
Located in Bozeman, MT
Allison McIntyre (b. 1999 West Virginia) pulls from animal imagery and digital aesthetics to respond to contemporary human-animal relations, wrestling...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Bull
Located in New York, NY
Oil on wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$1,800
The Lunar Vibration of Hearts
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
Todd Horton lives and paints full time on Samish Island, Washington. His work involves landscape and wildlife with elements of chance that play between realism and abstraction.
His work was recently featured in Seattles' Davidson Gallery "Exceptional" show and awarded a "Merit of Excellence" from a PONCHO Art Auction. Horton's paintings were also featured at the Museum of Northwest Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resting Magpie
By John Defeo
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Untitled (Deer Sketch)
Located in Bozeman, MT
Allison McIntyre (b. 1999 West Virginia) pulls from animal imagery and digital aesthetics to respond to contemporary human-animal relations, wrestling with issues such as the climate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Target Audience
By Casey Vogt
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a painting and collage on a panel.
"By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Resin, House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper
The appetite of the Cerberus Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting mythology
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and oil pastel on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
The atomic cuckoo Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting bird red pastel paper
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
Eagles and Camoflage
By Mike Piggott
Located in Bozeman, MT
Mike Piggott was born in 1963, Charlottesville, VA. He received his BA at Virginia Commonwealth University and studied at the Winchester College of Art, Winchester England. Mike Pigg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The haunted horse Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century painting Iranian outsider art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper
Hand-signed lower right
« Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival.
Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Broadmoor Swans
By Greg Ragland
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original acrylic painting by artist Greg Ragland. Gallery wrapped canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Guitarist
By Greg Decker
Located in Atlanta, GA
Greg's witty and charming oil painting on aluminum comes framed in a floater frame which adds 1.75 inches all the way around. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomize...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$5,300
Animal Painting #10-6707 (Caribou)
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
Les Thomas has long recognized painting as a language in its own right, and its diversity in terms of poetic and conceptual messages, exhibited by each individual picture.
Les Thoma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Panel
Cascade Bobcat
Located in Bozeman, MT
Adirondack artist Judy Scammell is well known for immersing her viewers in the personality and essence of her animal subjects. Her unique portraits capture the intelligence and supre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Community of Abundance, Acrylic Fabriano Paper Contemporary Artist-In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gurucharan Singh - The Community of Abundance-II, 22 x 30 inches ( Unframed Size )
Acrylic on Fabriano Paper
Born
1949
Exhibitions :
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 'Twilight Tales', The Viewing Room, Mumbai
2008 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989,86 Gallery 7...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Run Run Rabbit_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Animal Portrait_Brown
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Run Run Rabbit"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
18 x 18 in. ; 19.75 x 19.75 in. Framed
______________
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based Ameri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$7,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Hound Dog Acrylic Paint on Panel Dogs Life In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Hound Dog Acrylic Paint on Panel Dogs Life In Stock
Marjolein van Haasteren (1967, the Netherlands) works with the external manifestations of nature. Her paintings are fiction-fillin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Young Poseidon with moray eel in love Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
News from Eéa
“At the time of the last cosmogony I heard from Eéa
In the middle of the water, an island surrounded by mist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Note Taking" Contemporary Surrealist Watercolor, hummingbird, pencil, notebook
Located in New York, NY
A turquoise blue, emerald, violet, viridian and light green hummingbird perches on a spiral bound notebook with a pencil in its beak is depicted in this watercolor painting by New Yo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Quail in Cream
By Greg Ragland
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original acrylic painting by artist Greg Ragland. Gallery wrapped canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nandi-2, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Blue Color by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Jiban Biswas
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jiban Biswas - Nandi-2 - 24 x 30 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
Style : According to him, “ The Mud colour are changing its shade, The sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Balls game" figurative painting on wood panel 80x80cm
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
"Balls game" figurative painting on wood panel 80x80cm
Return of an exhibition in Beijing… An interpretation of the sensations felt…
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Marble, Sandstone
Flat, painting inspired by Hawaii Fish, Red, black, Green, Oil, Ink on panel
Located in Riverdale, NY
Flat is Ink and Oil and Varnish on Wood Panel inspired by the Hawaii Flatfish. It is 20x20 filled with red, orange, black and green.
Carol Bennett spends all of her time surrounded...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Wood Panel
And She Thought of Warm Summer Days Gone By
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is an original painting featuring a rabbit seated next to a geometric, abstracted, frozen waterfall.
Todd Horton lives and paints full time on Samis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother & Child, Figurative, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Feroz Khan - Untitled
Acrylic on Canvas, 55 x 42 inches
About Artist :
Mohammad Feroz Khan was born in 1978 and brought up in Delhi. He have not undergone any formal training in Art but gained experience first from his Father Late Mohd Ibrahim Khan, a Banner Painter. Subsequently, under the able tutelage of renowned Artist Late Manjit Bawa (Guruji - his Mentor in Art) he studied and learned Art for 14 years. Bawa took much care to train him to use brush and pastels on a variety of subjects, also guided him to savor the beauty and nuances of Texture. Then, as an initial step, his Guru guided him through a maze of depictable visuals scattered over the all too familiar places of Delhi. He asked him to draw inspiration from real life. Deferential to my master’s academic style of figuration, he soon convinced his guru of deft brushmanship and ability to create naturalistic human and animal forms, avoiding explicit linear delineation, while projecting solid masses. He chose to see the ordinary things and scenes that make up for our everyday life. He look at the little details of a tailor working on a manual sewing machine or a street-side vendor selling a cool drink on a hot summer day or rickshaw pullers or beggars and various other street vendors – denizens of the city’s poorest quarters. It is the sheer simplicity of each of these activities that appeals him and is reflected through his Canvas.
Selected Solo Shows :
2010 Galerie Waterton (Asian Contemporary Art), Singapore
2008 The incredible every day – ness of being curated by Sushma Bahl at Galerie
Romain Roland alliance Francaise New Delhi & Epicenter Gurgaon
2006 Tales of ordinary people at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2004 Krishna collection art gallery, New Delhi
Selected group shows :
2019 Participated in Group Show Harvest, organized by Arushi Arts
2018 Artinsic, clubhouse caitrion, gurugram
2017 Mediating dreams organized by ( Jitendra Padam Jain ) Gallery Sree Arts at
Visual art gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2017 Summer Stories Organised by Gallery Space, Hyderabad
2015 Masters Mentors Protégés Curated by (Vandana Haksar & Kuku Chowdhry
New Delhi
2015 Representing inward significance outwards organized by Gallery Sree Arts
Gallery Romain Rolland Indo – French cultural center Delhi
2013 Suryaveer Kohl Art Gallery show held in New Delhi
2013 Art Zest ( Vivid Strokes )at Grand Lobby, Arabian Dubai
2013 Parallel Realities at Devlalikar Art Gallery, M G Road Indore
2012 Love or Nothing (Toxteth Art Gallery ) Liverpool, London
2011 Asian students and young artist art festival organized by Gallery,
LVS South Korea.
2010 Crescenps Art select in Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Dubai
2009 Galerie Waterton (Asian contemporary art ), Singapore
2009 Participated ( Korea India International Hub Art Exchange exhibition ) at the
epicenter Gurgaon
2009 The faraway tree gallery, Chennai
2008 Khushii in association with round table India, organized Indian strokes- a
a myriad of art at the Park Hotel, Bangalore
2007 Heritage school, Gurgaon the show was inaugurated by renowned painter
Anjolie Ela...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Osprey Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting bird of prey animal sky
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Bellerofonte e la Chimera Oil Painting on Canvas Lion Dragon Mythology In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Bellerofante e la Chimera Oil Painting on Canvas Lion Dragon Mythology In Stock - Size without frame 30 x 40 cm; With frame 42,5 x 52,5 cm
Giovanni Tommasi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Animal Painting 0120709 (Moose)
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
Les Thomas has long recognized painting as a language in its own right, and its diversity in terms of poetic and conceptual messages, exhibited by each individual picture.
Les Thoma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Panel
Brown in Red
By Greg Ragland
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original acrylic painting by artist Greg Ragland. Gallery wrapped canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"An Early Summer" Contemporary Surrealist painting with Sandhill crane
Located in New York, NY
33"x26" watercolor on paper, depicting a sandhill crane on a blue woven beach chair. The birds next is constructed form seagrasses and intermingled ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Summer Sparrow
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer Sparrow by Carolyn Carter [2019]
original
Acrylic on Board
Image size: H:21 cm x W:21 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:N/A cm x W:N/A cm x D:N/Acm
Frame Size: H:35 cm x W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
ATTACK, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Attack“, 110 X 130cm, oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Perfect day Nicolas Kennett Contemporary painting animal art landscape
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Unique
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Blue Goblet" (white lamb) Contemporary Surrealist Painting Animal Still Life
Located in New York, NY
40"x60" watercolor on paper, signed on reverse by the artist, Thomas Broadbent.
This painting depicts a lone lamb standing with a natural fiber rope lead loosely coiled around one leg. A blue crystal goblet is set in front of the white, fluffy sheep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Nachtsneeuw Night Snow Oil Painting on Panel Portrait with Dog In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Nachtsneeuw Night Snow Oil Painting on Panel Portrait with Dog In Stock
Candace Charlton Born in Durban, Natal, 1968 - South Africa Attended ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Awe
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Retreating from the stress and chaos of the last year, I created another landscape; populated by an army of friendly creatures. Here the burdens of coronavirus, climate change, and political division are dismissed by hot pink kittens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
$15,000
The Bird, Tempera on Paper, Blue, Black by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subha Basu - The Bird
Tempera on Paper, 17.72 x 13.4 inches, 2017
Born - 1982 at Kolkata. B.V.A from The Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship in 2006, M.F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Prehistoric, Tempera on Paper, Blue, Black by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subha Basu - Prehistoric
Tempera on Paper, 17 x 21.25 inches, 2017
Born - 1982 at Kolkata. B.V.A from The Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship in 2006, M....
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Migration, Group of Elephants, Ink on paper by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Elan Cheziyan S - Migration - 30 x 59.5 inches (unframed size)
Ink on paper.
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Figurative, Charcoal, Dry Pastel on Paper by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 11.5 x 8.25 Inches ( unframed size )
Dry Pastel & Charcoal on Paper , 2020
( Unframed All in Delivered Price )
Style : The motive of a child in its most ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Charcoal
Figurative, Charcoal on Paper, Black & White by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 11.5 x 8.25 Inches ( unframed size )
Charcoal on Paper.
( Unframed All in Delivered Price )
Style : The motive of a child in its most basic form appears ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Tea
Figurative, Bird, Dry Pastel, Tea Liquor on Paper, Contemporary Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 10 x 8 Inches ( unframed size )
Dry Pastel & Tea Liquor on Paper.
( Unframed All in Delivered Price )
Style : The motive of a child in its most basic for...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Tea
Piecing it back together
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Retreating from the stress and chaos of the last year, I created another landscape; populated by an army of friendly creatures. Here the burdens of coronavirus, climate change, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Devi, Elephants, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, Green by Contemporary Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Debabrata Basu - Untitled - 48 x 36 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by introspect...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fishy Story, bright multicolored figurative painting, under the sea
Located in New York, NY
“After I achieved what I had set out to do in the geometric series in the 1970s and 80s, I turned to looser, figurative work in the 1990s . I wanted to portray energy, action and col...
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Viswaroopam 1, Hindu Mythical, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, Green, Pink "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Birendra Pani - Viswaroopam - 1 - 30 x 42 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas
** Will be delivered in rolled form
Should you want the work in ready to hand condition please c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Morning Sheep Market, an original oil painting on canvas
Located in Deddington, GB
About this work of Art
Morning Sheep Market by Colin Allbrook.
Morning Sheep Market is an original oil painting on canvas.
This sheep market at Blackmore Gate on Exmoor is held regul...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Happy Couple, Bird, Butterfly, Acrylic on canvas, Blue, Green, Brown "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
A wonderful work by the very well lauded by the indiancontemporary artist Shipra Bhattacharya. Shipra has a wonderful skill to paint meticulously enchantingly as well Attractively.
...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sand bank Nicolas Kennett Contemporary painting nature landscape animal blue sea
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist on the back
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Field Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting landscape animal bird crow
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Blue and Purple with 2 Broadbills
By Greg Ragland
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original acrylic painting by artist Greg Ragland. Gallery wrapped canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The deer that talks to men Philippe Jacq 21st Century art Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and embroidery on canvas
Signed lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Textile, Canvas, Acrylic
Los recuerdos del mono vivo
By Jose Bedia
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
José Bedia
(Havana, Cuba, 1959) Lives and works in Miami, FL
José Bedia is the most solid representative of post-1959 revolution Cuban art. He was part of the now mythical group s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Primordial waters Timothy Archer 21st Century Contemporary painting blue bird
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Signed lower right
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waiting in the trees behind the foliage Philippe Jacq 21st Century painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and collage on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Diana e la Cerva Oil Painting Contemporary Mythology In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Diana e la Cerva Oil Painting Contemporary Mythology In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His grandfather, fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Tigre vidente" art toy, three eyed tiger, pop art, mexican art, mask, nature
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A piece from the exhibition "Cosmic Duality" by artist Mr. Mitote.
Mitote is a term we use today to describe a lively, noisy, and excessive gathering. It’s also used to depict tumultuous gatherings marked by disorder, commotion, and sometimes even quarrels. In the colonial past, mitote was a celebration commemorating the establishment of the New Spain kingdom, blending local pride with imperial solemnity. However, throughout both ancient times and the present day, mitotes serve as rituals embedded in the culture and religiosity of various indigenous groups in Mexico, such as the Nahua, Cora, Tepehuan, and Huichol. Adorned in rich attire, gathered around a fire amidst the sounds of musical instruments, and under the intoxicating influence of alcoholic beverages, mitotes serve as occasions to invoke sacred beings—whether protective deities of nature or Christian saints associated with agriculture—to pray for bountiful harvests. Mitotes encompass and have always embodied rites, myths, and life.
In homage to the artist’s name, this exhibition is presented as a mitote: a celebration displaying the intimate mythologies of its creator through various artistic expressions such as sculpture, artwork, and video. Cosmic Duality is a concept wherein Mr. Mitote delves into memories of his childhood from a contemporary perspective. His mother introduced him at a young age to the traditions and customs of her native Maltrata, Veracruz, a town steeped in the memory of a noble past wherein it fought for its autonomy. Every year on January 1st, to invoke prosperity, the dance of the huehues (meaning “old people” or “elders” in Nahuatl) is performed. According to oral and local traditions, these characters embody foes in a mocked and vanquished manner, dancing beneath the lash of a tiger or devil. Their costumes feature pre-Columbian symbols merged with elements evoking nature, alongside nods to contemporary entertainment culture.
Through the observation and interpretation of nature, numerous ancestral cultures created dual cosmologies. Far from viewing opposites, they conceived of dual complementary systems such as chaos-order, cold-heat, humidity-drought, feminine-masculine, and life-death, among others, to uphold cosmic order. Placed within the context of Mexico City, Mr. Mitote reimagines these enduring principles from ancient religious practices alongside contemporary languages. He does so through vibrant entities that blend tradition and innovation, memory and fantasy, past and present, ancestral ceremonies, and urban rituals. Each artwork serves as a reminder that across all latitudes and human territories, culture thrives, tradition evolves continuously, the past is revitalized, and the present shapes the path forward into the future.
The body has served as the quintessential conduit bridging two dual dimensions: the human and the divine, the earthly and the celestial, the microcosm and the macrocosm. In several of his artworks, Mr. Mitote invokes propitiatory dances, and ritual practices, aimed at attracting abundant rain and fostering good harvests, many of which entail risking the physical well-being and even the lives of participants. The tiger hunt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Resin, Paint, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Eclipse Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting animal blue wild mystery
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Signed on the back
"Incanto" or the enchantment of shifting
"Nicolas Kennett revisits the organic world through painted and s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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