Tag: hundkunst

  • Donate to Four & Sons’ 1st Anniversary Newspaper

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    Four & Sons is a Melbourne-based online magazine about dogs and culture. In honor of its one-year anniversary editor Marta Roca decided to create a hold-it-in-your-hands-and-smell-the-ink newspaper.

    This old tyme artistic endeavor is being funded by dog art lovers like us via Pozible. Your can pledge as little as $1, but if you pledge $10 you get a copy of the newspaper (and more goodies with bigger pledges).

    As of today, October 23, 2012, $770 has been pledged for the $1,500 goal. The project is only funded if the goal is reached.

    If you would like to show your support for Four & Sons and their devotion to dog culture please donate.   If it's not in the budget simply spread the word.  They have only six more days to meet their goal.

    I learned about this project via another favorite dog-art wesite, HundKunst, written by Petra Hartl in Vienna. I think tt's so inspiring to see dogs celebrated in our society in so many cultures around the world.  Donate today and become a part of this passionate, global, dog-art network.

    P.S. If you donate you can add a photo of you or your dog by unloading the image to your Pozible profile.  You can see Tyler Foote drapped in the American flag in the upper right hand corner.  Petra's Rocco is the white dog two spots below him.

  • Charming Baker’s Dogs

     

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    Dignity Rides a Tricky Pony

    London artist Charming Baker is influenced by “cheap books, heroes, girls, Zulus, odd-looking women, suburbia, da riddum, family, stories, horses, dogs, packaging, summer holidays, the smell of make-up and cheap perfume, powertools, tea, tomatoes, Britain in colour.”

    He’s been painting pretty much unnoticed for over 20 years.  Then in 2009, he signed with music manager Pat Magnarella and became an overnight sensation at age 47.  Read about Baker’s path outside the traditional gallery system here.  I found his work at Viennese artist Petra Hartl’s truly awesome dog art blog Hundkunst.  Translation here.  

     

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    The Establishment Looks on in Wonder

    Charming_baker_that_which_drives_us_is_beyond_our_control

     

    That Wish Drives Us (Is Beyond Our Control)

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    The God Given Pleasure of Another Man’s Nightmare

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    What a Strange & Beautiful Thing (Grey)

    Charming Baker’s website.

    Seriously, visit Petra’s dog art blog.   I think you will love it.

    Petra Hartl’s website, too.