Chimps paintings priced at $1500

[thecrow]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/11/chimp.modernart.ap/index.html

When I saw this I thought it was really the Chimpster!!!
LOL

[Cobalt Violet]

1. The artist Chimp is a better artist than the Chimpster is a president.

[dtown]

2. maybe i could make more money off my artwork

if i wore a chimp costume while i painted?

[expatriate]

4. I thought the same durn thing!

Perhaps I will wear a gorilla costume when I paint and market my work as "Gorillart".

People pay big bucks for the paintings done by elephants. I have a pug and a French Bulldog, I wonder if they could manage to hold a paintbrush in their mouths ...

[thecrow]

5. Maybe you should put the paint on their tails

and move the canvass up close as you feed them a treat...?

[expatriate]

6. Considering the shortness of the tails in question

this could pose a logistical problem, but the curled tail on the pug could yield some interesting patterns.

Of course, if I were successful at marketing such PupTailArt, I could eventually just have prints done on textured canvases and the doggies could just add personalized touches, so we wouldn't have to work so hard to get the original paintings from those short tails.

Hey, it works for Thomas Kinkade.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi dtown!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Carolab]

3. This is really remarkable.

I never knew about this. Chimpanzees are amazing. I loved "Gorillas in the Mist" although it made me quite sad.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Oooooooh ... This is the smart chimp .... I thought it was about Bush

I like this one best.