Animal imagery refers to the use of words or phrases that describe or compare humans to animals. It helps to create vivid and powerful images in literature or poetry to convey certain characteristics or emotions.
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She often incorporates
animal imagery in her work, using the animal form as an analog to human emotion.
His choice of materials and recurring motifs
like animal imagery reveal his connection with the natural world.
Penny Dreadful, Season 1, Episode 3: Supervising Producer Chris King breaks down the significance
of animal imagery in Penny Dreadful.
In a series of manipulated
found animal imagery Simmons unearths the relationship between predator and prey.
The snails reappeared when I began
using animal imagery in my ceramic work, and I began to pile them up.
[8] Even though many today's artists still create images of animals to simply celebrate their beauty, the current interest in
animal imagery seems intensified by our increasingly uneasy relationship with nature and its denizens.
Over the past eight years, Barbara Moody's work has focused
on animal imagery, piles of debris, and unusual ecosystems.
The room containing Peter Saul, Henry Taylor, Carol Rama, Jason Fox, Josh Smith, and Lonnie Holley — represented by a fierce motorcycle sculpture, Riding Through My Roots Too Fast, 2004 — alternated
between animal imagery and social critique.
Over the years Jules has developed a body of work dealing primarily
with animal imagery and thoughts on biology, ecology, mythology, and transformation.
Ahuja's combination
of animal imagery, myths, and landscape from different cultures challenges our culture's preoccupation with racial definitions and her own quest to define herself as an individual and as an artist.
Animal imagery is scattered about the wastebasket among a patchwork motif complemented by leaves.
Obsessed with themes of eroticism, death, and decay, he is famous for employing ready - interpreted symbolism encompassing fetishes,
animal imagery, and religious symbols.
The wildlife found its way into her work, particularly in her symbolic use of plant and
animal imagery.
Extending Smith's interests in
animal imagery and the interdependence and vitality of all living things, the works represent a deeply personal and spiritual celebration of the natural world.
In the work Mint, more in Murata's «portrait style» of
animal imagery, a chipmunk poses in profile with its lush brown and white stripes emphasizing both curvature and break between an austere gray and brown background.
While her work is often compared to that of Jeff Koons due to her similar use of appropriation and
animal imagery, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last month, von Bonin cited artists André Cadere, Marcel Broodthaers, Cady Noland and Mike Kelley as her first major influences.