Taschen's publish of Walton Ford’s life-sized watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th-century natural-science illustrations or British colonial paintings. Except they’re not. Something strange and usually sinister is happening in each of Ford’s works, whether it’s a turkey crushing a small parrot with its claw, a collection of monkeys wreaking havoc on a formally set dinner table, or a buffalo surrounded by a pack of bloodied white wolves… in the middle of a proper French garden. For more info click here.
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walton ford is an amazing artist. i saw his show of large-sized gouache paintings at the brooklyn museum a while back, and was blown away. at first, his work looks like a rip-off of audubon, but then you realize that he is just using that style to express interesting ideas about man and nature. really something you need to see in person.
Posted by: djemar | January 9, 2008 3:32 PM