November 22, 2008

Apes Helping Apes: Orangutans and Bonobos Make Art for Charity.
posted by homunculus 16 years ago
  • I wonder if the apes are involved in the color selection. It seems like someone picks some colors that are nice together, then give them to the ape.
  • Along the same line of questioning, it's as if the ape art sensibility owes much to the use of empty white space. Could that also be a matter of the human keeper's selection process? Cluttered pictures with jarring colors to the trash, or maybe to the back research archive? Fine Japanese Zen compositions to the auction block?
  • Bonobo Kanzi achieves a "Barry Lydon" affect with the softness. In the edges.