OMG! Two cats in two days on Dog Art Today! Well, I couldn't help myself. This film by Will Braden is so charming and beautifully done I had to share…
Visit Will's blog to read his cat haikus and see his new hit video for Lil Wayne's song "Got Money" featuring the Smurfs!
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Painting by my sister, Sheila Cameron
Thank you Laura Sweet for your awesome post about me and my dog art collages and my new film “Dogs in Art”! Laura is a trend spotter/design maven/early adopter extraordinaire and I am very flattered to be on her fabulous blog, If It’s Hip, It’s Here, especially since she included my all time favorite photo of Darby and me — that I must get blown up one of these days — this is from a contact sheet!
Photo by Danny Rothenberg
Visit her site and bookmark immediately, and you too can be (almost) as hip as Laura.
Several months in the making, my new film Dogs in Art was a true labor of love. It was such a pleasure working so closely with all these spectacular pet portraits and charting the history of dogs in art over 5,000 years. The art and the artists were, and still are, endlessly inspiring. Hope you enjoy it!
View Dogs in Art on a "wide screen" at YouTube.
See a list of all the art (full images) and links to the artists here.
As a favor, if you'd like to leave a comment, please click on this YouTube link and leave it there. I'm moving up the charts as "Most Discussed" video in the Pets & Animals category and feeling very competitive.
P.S. Adding me to your Favorites on YouTube is also greatly appreciated. Thank you : )
P.P.S. Music is Parlez-Moi D'Amour by CharlElie Couture from The Moderns soundtrack by Mark Isham. I couldn't find it on iTunes but you can get the CD here
P.P.S. In case you haven't seen it, this film was inspired by Philip Scott Johnson's masterful "Women in Art" video blockbuster of last year. Click here to see it.
“Dogs in Art,” a three-minute video celebration of 5,000 years of canine art was inspired by Philip Scott Johnson’s “Women in Art” video.
Music: Parlez-Moi D’Amour by CharlElie Couture from “The Moderns” soundtrack by Mark Isham available here
Scroll down to view the 60 works of art.
Anubis, Ancient Egypt, c. 3000 B.C
Herakles & Kerberos, Ancient Greece, 530 B.C.
Le Livre de la Chasse, 1405 -1410
Two Hunting Dogs Tied to a Tree Stump by Jacopo Bassano, 1548
Portrait of the Spaniel of the Infanta Maria Josefa de Bourbon by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1763
Neptune by Edwin Landseer, 1824
Vintage Boston Dog Show Poster, artist unknown, 1890
Waterloo by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, 1903
Brindle French Bull Dog Head Study with Collar by Monica Gray, early 20th century
Portrait of a Terrier by John Emms, 1903
A Lady of Quality by William Frank Calderon, 1913
Pointy by John Singer Sargent, early 1880s
Optician’s Sign by Jean Léon Gérôme, 1902
Boy With Dog by Pablo Picasso, 1905
Nude in Bathtub by Pierre Bonnard, 1941-1946
Portrait of Stanley by David Hockney, 1995
#10 (Dachshund) by Brooke Bradford Churchill
Bassett Hound by Charley Harper
Ginger by Andy Warhol, 1976, private collection; courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
Girl with a White Dog by Lucian Freud, 1951
Self Portrait with Small Monkey by Frida Kahlo, 1945 (Itzcuintli)
Pink Chihuahua by Sheila Cameron, 2004
Bear Walls by George Rodrigue, 1997
Minnie by Moira McLaughlin, 2007
RCA postcard by Chrissy Wilson, 2007
Gypsey by Petcasso aka Luis Ramos
Nora by Christine Merrill, 1994
Camorran by Camilla Engman
Q by Matthew Rose
Blue/Blanc/Rouge by Peter Clark
Emmitt the Pug by Melissa Langer
180 Degrees by Wayde Owen
Frankie by Linda O’Neill, Abby Creek Studios
Grrrrrrrrrrr! By Roy Lichtenstein, 1965
Il Penseroso by David Terry
Radio Flyer by Bill Tosetti
Gus by Natalie Cartner of Dogography
Golden Retriever by Amy Turner
A Lucky Dog by Stephen Huneck
Zorro by Marion Evamy
Roy Speaks by Ron Burns
Bella by Rebecca Collins
Obey the Black Lab by Kevin McCormick
Fashion Dog by Lisa Oxley
Patience by Ken Bailey
Sasha by Rachelle Oatman
Beware of Dog, by Birju, Nepal
Schnauzer by John W. Golden
Westie by Oliver Lett
Logan by Moira McLaughlin
Pomp by Jennifer Davis
Lulu by Zara Wood, 2006
Ain’t Like It Used To Be by Chris Mostyn, 2007
Rex and the Aliens by Kristian Olson, 2005
Top Dog by Ronald Kuniawan
Dog Dream by Kaz Maslanka
World’s Minimum Dog by Ten do Ten, 2005
Several photos are from the beautiful book Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today
You may recall from my post about my sister Regan's second birthday, the McLaughlin clan is not afraid of taking cakes to the third dimension. But, I can speak for all of us when I say we are truly humbled by Elisa Strauss's Joey cake, a life size version of her father's Labradoodle, made in honor of her dad's 60th birthday.
Granted, Strauss is a professional, owner of Manhattan's Confetti Cakes, but that does nothing to take away from the magic of Joey in all his confectionary glory. I love that she had the foresight to film its creation for posterity, since after the party her masterpiece was surely gone. The film was edited by Lisa Stock, compressing 4 days into 4 minutes. What a great keepsake for your dog-loving and cake-loving family.
Joey beside his amazing doppelganger.
Read more about the exciting response to Strauss's Joey cake on her blog.
And thanks to my friend Garth McLean for the tip about Joey. Keep them coming!
November 3, 2007 was the 50th anniversary of Laika the Russian space dog’s doomed launch in Sputnik 2. I had planned to write an extensive post about how she has gone on to influence our popular culture. But honestly, her story made me too sad, and I let the anniversary slip by.
Since then, Laika keeps popping up in my life, in news stories, in emails, art exhibits, and matchbox labels. I think she wanted her day of recognition. And no one deserves it more than this poor little street mutt sent on a reckless mission for the glory of heartless men.
This Laika film/Zune ad by Ro Rao gives her story a bittersweet twist of a happy ending. Music is by the Aliens.
Originally spotted on NOTCOT.
