I think I've shown great restraint in not indulging my deep and bewildering
love of monkey art in this space recently.
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I'll drink to that.
(Monkeys Drinking and Smoking in a Tavern,
in the style of David Tenier the Younger.) |
And I'll continue to show restraint. Today I'm only going to put up a few images of monkeys wearing adorable people clothes and doing people things.
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I might actually buy cabbage if this simian gentleman were the proprietor.
(Monkey in a Market, George Lance) |
I feel it is totally necessary at this time to post a picture of a monkey barbershop in which all the customers are cats.
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This seems unlikely, but there are actually a lot of paintings on this very theme.
(Monkey Barbership with Cats, Abraham Teniers) |
But not all
singerie depict monkeys engaged in human activity. Here's one that shows a monkey doing a very monkeyish thing. While dressed in people clothes.
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Yeah, yeah, wait your turn. I can only pick so many nits.
(Circus Friends, Joos Vincent de Vos) |
Why, you ask? Why am I so fond of this rich and beautiful artistic genre?
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More cats. Singing cats. With jazzbo monkeys. You have to ask?
(Katzenkonzert, David Teniers) |
Because it is full of awesome.
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Monkey freaking Knife freaking Fight.
Anonymous but epic. |
Sadly, I have not yet achieved my dream of
acquiring a framed print of Edmund Bristow's "Before the Monkey Duel" for my formal living/dining room. But sometimes dreams are sweeter for going unfulfilled.
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And sometimes they're all Holy crap I want this now!
You know, it just depends. |
This is who I am, people. Love me, love my monkey art. And make sure I stay on my meds. Because sometimes the monkeys talk to me late at night.
Um, you can ignore that part.
Unless you can't.
Because I can't.
The monkeys are telling me to stop writing now.
Beautiful all this funny monkeys.I see you have already find Vincent de Vos,but have you try Charles Verlat - Artistic greatings from Menen (Belgium).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the follow, and I will look up Charles Verlat!
ReplyDeleteHello,I just have put two paintings of Charles Verlat on my blob: http://gosselinpaul.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI have a fabulous life-sized monkey carving, maybe 100 plus years old. Help me to identify its maker/origin please. Contact me for photo. Merritjs@aol.com
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