Animals, Creatures, Totems

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Animals, Creatures, Totems

• Many architectural supporting columns and vaulted
  arches depict whimsical, or fantastical animals
  carved in marble. In native cultures around the
  world, animals have been depicted on carved
  doors, chairs and totem poles..

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Abstract Expressionist artist Max Ernst
(b.1891, d.1976) Ernst was associated with
both the Surrealist movement of the 1920s in
Europe as well as the Abstract Expressionist
movement of the 1940s in New York, where
heemigrated following the war.
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Wendy Earles Square FishWendy Earle,
contemporary artist, lives in a secluded valley
in west Wales, Great Britain, where she has
placed many of her sculptures in trees, streams
and fields and where they have acquired
camouflage of moss and lichen typical of the
piece pictured here. She has also been inspired
by the primitive cave paintings of Lascaux,
France, carbon dated to 15,000 years.
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Robert Davidsoncarved woodTotems
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This is an example of a stone fountain with two
gargoyles. Gargoyles were used to decorate flying
buttresses which counter-balanced huge vaulted
ceilings of Gothic churches of the 12th and 13th
centuries.
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Turtle Drinking Fountaincement
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Miros Moon Bird