Jeff Koons’ Puppy

Jeff Koons is best known for his large-scale reproductions of everyday objects and in 1992 he created a 43 foot tall sculpture of a West Highland Terrier made with stainless steel, soil, geotextile fabric, an internal irrigation system, and live flowering plants. Puppy has found a permanent home sitting outside of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain weiterlesen.

David Hockney’s Dachshunds

David Hockney’s Dachshunds

Contemporary artist David Hockney painted hundreds of portraits of his Dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie as they nap and play nützlicher inhalt weiterlesen. I make no apologies for the apparent subject matter…these two dear little creatures are my friends,”

Dogs in Art Hachikō

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Japanese sculptor Takeshi Ando (1923 – )

Standing in front of the Shibuya train station in Tokyo. It’s actually the second sculpture of it’s type. The first one was erected in 1934, but was melted down in the war effort. A new one was remade by Ando, the artist’s son, in 1948.
Hachikō, is an Akita. He greeted his owner at the Shibuya station every day at the exact same time. After his owner died, Hachiko continued to show up at the station every day for the next nine years. Everyone in Tokyo knows where to go if you say, “Let’s meet at Hachiko.”
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Dogs in Art: A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society

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Sir Edwin Henry Landseer 1802–1873

Title
A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society
Date Exhibited 1838
Medium Oil paint on canvas

Landseer loved painting animals. This is “Bob”, who saved twenty-three people from drowning at the London waterfront lekarna-slovenija.com/. He later became a member of the Royal Humane Society, currently the oil painting hangs at the Kennel Club Art Gallery in London.