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Disruptive coloration (also known as disruptive camouflage or disruptive patterning) is a form of camouflage that works by breaking up the outlines of an animal, soldier or military hardware with a strongly contrasting pattern. It is often combined with other methods of crypsis including background colour matching and countershading; special ...
There are many known portraits of Charles Darwin. Darwin came from a wealthy family and became a well-known naturalist and author, and portraits were made of him in childhood, adulthood and old age. Darwin's life (1809–1882) spanned the development of photography, and early portraits of Darwin are drawn or painted, while many later portraits ...
Region. Illinois. The Piasa ( / ˈpaɪ.əsɔː / PY-ə-saw) or Piasa Bird is a creature from Native American mythology depicted in one of two murals painted by Native Americans on cliffsides above the Mississippi River. Its original location was at the end of a chain of limestone bluffs in Madison County, Illinois, at present-day Alton, Illinois.
Livestock branding is a technique for marking livestock so as to identify the owner. Originally, livestock branding only referred to hot branding large stock with a branding iron, though the term now includes alternative techniques. Other forms of livestock identification include freeze branding, inner lip or ear tattoos, earmarking, ear ...
LONDON (AP) — On the 10th day, after creating the mountain goat, elephants, pelicans, a rhinoceros and a gorilla, among other animals, Banksy rested. The elusive street artist's menagerie that ...
Lolo the donkey ("Joachim-Raphaël Boronali") painting in front of witnesses. A painting partially made by Lolo the donkey, Et le soleil s'endormit sur l'Adriatique [] (Sunset Over the Adriatic) was exhibited at the 1910 Salon des Indépendants attributed to the 'excessivist' Genoan painter Joachim-Raphaël Boronali, an invention of writer and critic Roland Dorgelès, who painted much of the ...
Cave painting. Cueva de las Manos, Perito Moreno, Argentina. The art in the cave is dated between 7,300 BC and 700 AD; [ a] stenciled, mostly left hands are shown. [ 3][ 4] In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings ), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.
Edgar Degas, Before the Race, 1882–1884, oil on panel, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion features an animated sequence of a race horse galloping, using photos published in 1887. Thoroughbred racing was an inspiration for Romantic and Impressionist artists of the 19th century.