Painting By Chimpanzee Fools Art Expert

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A GERMAN art expert was fooled into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee was the work of a master.

The director of the State Art Museum of Moritzburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Katja Schneider, suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay.

"It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay. He was famous for using such blotches of colour," Dr Schneider confidently asserted.

The canvas was actually the work of Banghi, a 31-year-old female chimp at the local zoo.

While Banghi likes to paint, she is not able to build up much of a body of work as her mate Satscho generally destroys her paintings before they can get to the gallery.

But this one survived long enough to give Dr Schneider a red face.

"I did think it looked a bit rushed," she told Bild newspaper.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17606986-13762,00.html

There's always a critic in the troop.

Now I want some monkey art to put on my wall :P

Do you like yellow?

I like yellow!

Give me reds, oranges and sure, toss in some yellow too :P It'll match the rest of my living room decor.

The first is a banana still life titled (oddly enough) "Banana Still Life"
and an abstract piece I like to call, "Who Flung Poo".

Please see the cashier.

that pretty much explains it

Let's not forget that.

She paints also:
http://www.elephants.com/sanct.htm

(about 80 miles from where I live).

I mean, it's not like a digital camera is hard to procuure these days.

Damn lazy internet journalists. Also, the monkey art is boring. Mind you it was painted by a monkey, so I shouldn't expect much anyway, haha.

Crap! tried to link the pic and FAILED.

"...suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist.."

Guggenheim.
Crazy Guggenheim, that is.
Need I say more?
:evilgrin:

"Painting By Art Expert Fools Chimpanzee" - just for evolution's sake.