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Walton Ford, Monkey Man, By Rachel Corbett Of Artnet Magazine

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Ford is often called a modern-da y Audubon, but his works aren't exactly sober representations of ducks and pelicans either. For the artist's current show at Paul Kasmin Gallery, titled "I Don't Like to Look at Him, Jack. It Makes Me Think of that Awful Day on the Island," Nov. 3-Dec. 23, 2011, Ford painted three giant, 9x12 ft. paintings of King Kong and six smaller works of monkeys in various states of sexual arousal -- all in his signature 19th-century wildlife realist style.

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Walton Ford's On the Island (2011), by Paul Kasmin Gallery

 

"I'm not really interested in nature art that shows the puma in the swamp," Ford said. Rather, it's the relationship between humans and animals that he aims to capture. To him, King Kong, who viewers only meet once the beast falls in love with a human girl, "is the ultimate fable of that."

 

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The author's third-from-the-last paragraph by GLloyd Rowsey on Sunday, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:09:59 AM
bestiality by Ned Lud on Sunday, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:56:31 AM