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The elephant as the symbol for the Republican Party of the United States originated in an 1874 political cartoon of an Asian elephant by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. This cartoon, titled "Third Term Panic", is a parody of Aesop's fable , [ h ] " The Ass in the Lion's Skin ".
The earliest known example of composite art is found in a Jain manuscript known as Devasano Pado Kalpasutra from the late 15th century, which is an amalgamation of an elephant and a horse. A similar example from South India is from the late 16th century in Vijayanagar, which is also a combination of an elephant and a horse. It is difficult to ...
Modern Art Depiction Of Airavata The elephant became the symbol of Bangkok by association with Indra during its foundation as the capital of the new Rattanakosin Kingdom . [ 10 ] It is also sometimes associated with the old Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang and the defunct Kingdom of Laos , where it was more commonly known as the "three-headed elephant ...
The Elephants Artist Salvador Dalí Year 1948 Medium Oil on canvas Movement Surrealism Dimensions 49 cm × 60 cm (19 in × 24 in) Location Private collection The Elephants is a 1948 painting by the Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Background The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a ...
The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of the Picts of Scotland. The great majority of surviving examples are on Pictish stones. The Pictish Beast accounts for about 40% of all Pictish animal depictions, and so was likely of great ...
The Elephant Celebes (or short Celebes) is a 1921 painting by the German Dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst. It is among the most famous of Ernst's early surrealist works and "undoubtedly the first masterpiece of Surrealist painting in the de Chirico tradition." [1] It combines the vivid dreamlike atmosphere of Surrealism with the collage aspects ...
16–17th century copy of Qian Xuan (d. 1301). The arhat is in red, Manjushri at right.. Washing the Elephant (Chinese: 扫象图; pinyin: saoxiang, literally sweeping the elephant; [1] English variants: "sweeping", and "white" or "sacred" elephant) is a subject in Chinese Buddhist painting, showing a group of men washing a white elephant with brushes, under the supervision of the bodhisattva ...
The marble elephant was probably carved by Bernini's assistant Ercole Ferrata. The Latin inscription at one side of the pedestal reads: "Let any beholder of the carved images of the wisdom of Egypt on the obelisk carried by the elephant, the strongest of beasts, realize that it takes a robust mind to carry solid wisdom." [5]