Julian Rad is an award-winning
wildlife photographer based in Austria who loves capturing heartwarming, yet
hilarious shots of squirrels, hamsters and foxes.
Four years ago, in 2015, he won the Comedy Wildlife Photography Award with his photograph titled Rush hour, which presents a running hamster.
A red squirrel fascinated with a
miniature snowman, a hamster sniffing a flowers, a grand squirrel reaching for a
blackberry...
Ardif draws strange creatures, half organic and half mechanical, on walls in France and Navarre. He has begun to put his art in public spaces not that long ago and his drawings are becoming more and more part of the urban landscape. He studied for a career in architecture, but he has been living out his street-art passion for...
What is known to be unstable, playful, altruistic, a little mean sometimes, and sometimes with a superiority complex? Superheroes. There’s an animal that also has similar character traits: the cat.
Indonesian illustrator Fajareka Setiawan has made a striking mix between the two in his remarkable drawings.
Setiawan transforms the characters of Marvel and DC into felines in a series...
Thai photographer Visarute Angkatavanich creates magnificently hued portraits that look more like choreographed dance shots than animal photography. Only when the viewers look directly at the bug-eyed expressions of the subjects of those photos, we notice those are fish, not ballerinas in dancer costumes.
Angkatavanich makes portraits of Siamese fighting fish (also called betta) against black&white backgrounds to isolate their...
Folded, glued, assembled, cut... old cutlery sculptures by the artist Matt Wilson give life to animals made using scrap metal. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Matt Wilson has shown an interest in art from an early age. He was appointed the director of the Fine Arts Center Arts in Greenville, and in 2006 began his passion for metal sculpture.
Wilson’s...
Among the questions that define people, are the preferences of cats or dogs, and in that sense, rappers are no different. Tyler The Creator, for example, is allergic to canine hair, and Kreayshawn was besotted with the Crazy Cat Lady nickname; Cee-Lo Green appeared as a judge on The Voice with a huge rescue-tuned-rental cat named Purrfect. Still, lots...
The works of French artist Pascal Buclon depend on where you stand when you look at them. By playing with perspective, the metal sculptures can be seen as animals from one angle and a completely different thing from a different angle. If at first sight the sculpture seems abstract, the installation is metamorphosed to give life to a cat,...
Josie Morway is a self-taught artist who loves to create photorealistic anthropomorphic paintings of animals. Her expressive portraits of wildlife show beauty and brutality of nature, combined with geometric lines, vignettes of colorful paint and other interesting elements. Morway is most known for her paintings of birds but she sometimes draws wild beasts and plants; succulents and blossoms rise up...
New York subway got a makeover thanks to these beautiful mosaics made in tribute to the work of the artist William Wegman whose most famous series remains his portraits of Weimaraner dogs.
We already told you the story how Wegman adopted his first Weimaraner in the 70s, a German dog with a gray coat and clear blue eyes called Man Ray;...
Romanian artist Cristian Marianciuc creates beautiful origami birds with feathers and minute details. A work of goldsmith that is appreciated as a true work of art.
In 2015, Cristian took on the challenge of making one origami bird every day for 1,000 days. He accomplished this, and he still continues to create more and more experimental, original birds and brings to...
