Again, our Suite101 Feature Writer blogs are due to be shut down soon so I'm reposting some of the entries here....
There are new and unusual schools of art -- and then there are the spoofs that follow. Click here to see if you can recognize the works of either some spirited and colorful chimps or bonafide human painters. Back in 1964, the canvases of an emerging French talent named Pierre Brassau came upon the art scene in Sweden, with one critic praising Brassau's style as having the “delicacy of a ballet dancer.” Pierre eventually turned out to be a chimp named Peter from the zoo, who probably didn’t even get any of the money earned from the sale of his stuff before the big revelation. This same website also gives you the chance to guess whether you’re looking at a Pollock or some abstractly messy pigeon crap -- or if you want to get literary, whether text is oddly computer-generated German translation or actual William Faulkner prose.
(Pictured: Study of Birds and Monkey, J. van Kessel, circa 1660)
