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News & ArtsWednesday, January 23, 2013
Visual Art And Now Let's Just Discuss This Picture
Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:34 PM
- Courtesy of Museum fÜr Naturkunde, Berlin
- GUESS WHICH ONE AIN’T RIGHT One ocelot taxidermied by someone who’d never seen an ocelot, and the other by someone who had.
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I wonder if that one on the left was someone's first attempt (at something bigger than a crow they found in the woods). If I were to stuff an ocelot, I think it would look a lot like poor old Janky.
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Back in the 50's there was a big push to promote taxidermy as a hobby. I read many old magazines and am always seeing advertisments for taxidermy schools as well as learn taxidermy at home courses. I suspect that most of the shitty looking taxidermy pieces we see today are a direct result of those courses. Another thing that should be taken into consideration is that the animal skins dry out and warp over time, some of those pieces may have looked OK when they were freshly made, only to turn really horrific with the passage of decades.
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I think it's evidence that taxidermy is a skilled art, and like all skilled arts it's something that takes time and practice.
Think of your favorite illustrator. Now if you go look at everything he/she drew for the first couple of years at it, it would all look wonky, out of proportion, and fucked up. Much like this.
Think of your favorite illustrator. Now if you go look at everything he/she drew for the first couple of years at it, it would all look wonky, out of proportion, and fucked up. Much like this.
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I don't think the problem with the taxidermist who made the left one isn't that he'd never seen an ocelot. It's that he's a shitty taxidermist.
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