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Italian Art Lovers Have An Animal Attraction

Where: Venice, Italy
December 23, 2008 at 9:30 AM | by | Comments (3)

We're all for getting a bit cultural on our travels but perhaps the latest exhibition planned for the Galleria d'arte Giudecca in Venice is taking art a gallop too far.

Turns out that this Italian gallery is planning a spring exhibition of the works of a new artist... who happens to be a horse. As you'd expect, these paintings seem to belong to the abstract genre and aren't exactly what we'd want on our wall, but apparently there are buyers out there. It gets better: The horse's owner reckons the animal could be a reincarnation of someone like Monet.

Come on. We thought art galleries are serious businesses, but these guys seem to be just, well, horsing around.

Related Stories:
· Cholla Gets Venice Exhibition [Telegraph]
· Venice Travel coverage [Jaunted]
· Art Galleries coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Telegraph]

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Horsefeathers

Somewhere out there, a tremendously talented yet overlooked human painter is reading this and then crawling slowly onto a window ledge.
Victor Ozols on December 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM #Permalink

Or ...

... on the other hand, this talented but overlooked painter is taking a photograph of a horse in front of one of their paintings and passing it off as animal art
amandak on December 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM #Permalink
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Competitive

This picture is indeed cool. Well, as I see it, there usually are many pressures and stresses people tend to be suffering from these days, and its not a big surprise that more people have not discovered the therapeutic and comforting benefits that art by Italians can give. For some men and women, doing almost everything correct is not really enough to rescue their life from the bad times that life's difficulties can generate. The good news is psychological phenomenon that a lot people perhaps may be completely unaware of.
Ashe on May 17, 2010 at 1:15 AM #Permalink

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