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Congo (1954–1964) was a chimpanzee artist and painter. Zoologist, author and surrealist painter Desmond Morris first observed his abilities when the chimpanzee was offered a pencil and paper at two years of age. By the age of four, Congo had made 400 drawings and paintings. His style has been described as "lyrical abstract impressionism". [1]
Peter (alias "Pierre Brassau") in 1964Peter, better known by his alias Pierre Brassau, was a chimpanzee and artist who was the subject of a 1964 hoax perpetrated by Åke "Dacke" Axelsson, a journalist at the Swedish tabloid Göteborgs-Tidningen.
Such paintings were exhibited in many modern art museums during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The cultural and scientific interest in these paintings diminished steadily and little note is taken today. The most successful chimpanzee artist is Congo (1954–1964). Morris offered him a pencil and paper at two years of age, and by the age of ...
In 1957 he organised an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, showing paintings and drawings composed by common chimpanzees. In 1958 he co-organised an exhibition, The Lost Image , which compared pictures by infants, human adults, and apes, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
During a journey up the Congo River, he witnessed the bushmeat trade [7] and spent the following two decades campaigning to highlight the trade and its impact on a wide range of species. He traveled to many of the African ape range states and visited numerous orphan sanctuaries while researching the effects of the bushmeat trade on apes.
May 17 – First known instance of a chimpanzee painting. [2] His mentor Desmond Morris organises an exhibition of chimpanzee art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Hungarian National Gallery opens in Buda Castle, Budapest. Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany.
Congo (1954–1964)—chimpanzee, ... a chimpanzee, was the subject of a famous hoax through which the chimpanzee's paintings were presented as ... artist "Pierre ...
The following list of Democratic Republic of the Congo artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent or who produce works that are primarily about that country.