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April 29, 2007 |
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Dinosaurs
FOUND by Patrick Kolodgy
in Toledo, Ohio
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
That looks like how I draw. Seriously.
The dreaded Treeosaurus takes down another gigantic blood-sucking mosquito as the more docile Beavplodocus gazes into the distance, wondering if she'll ever find love.
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This is precious. It must've been lost, because I can't imagine a parent throwing this out. Just ask my grown kids, who know that I have quite the "art" collection that they can dispose of after I croak.
i love this! this person draws better than i do, and i bet they're younger than me! i love all the colors.
This reminds me of when i worked at a diner, whenever we'd get bored the other servers and i would sit in the back and color the dinosaur kids menus. we had so many drawings like this one by the time i quit. great find!! :D
nothing like a dinosaur coming out of a tree
at last the mystery of what happened to the dinosaurs is solved: the trees ate 'em.
suction! FLOOOOOOOP!
i love dinosaurs!
i esp. enjoy the one growing out of the tree. :)
This drawing rocks!
I love the one coming out of the tree. How does he fit up there?!
I want a Treeosaurus to catch the giant dragonflies that freak me out every summer! I imagine him to be like a reverse Tyrannosaurus, with really tiny back legs holding him in there.
i think this was hanging beside me
Red dinosaur looks like such a punk. What with his bad spiked beaver tail.
And you do not want to cross palm tree dwelling ninj-iguanna.
As the kid that also never had any artistic talent, I harbor a deep sense of solidarity with the artist. I've drawn ferns that look exactly like those.
Of course, the artist was probably 5, and I drew pictures like this well into my teens.
that child designed a great poster for the next 'jurassic park' movie :D
this reminds me of my ex-boyfriend..he was obsessed with dinosaurs when he was little.
That's so cute how the giant dinasaur came out of that little tree. Look out !!
ilove it!
I love how that skinny little tree can support the weight of that colossal dinosaur. Is it about to chow down on a huge mosquito?
Is the half-dino with the hula skirt/palm tree legs attacking a giant dragonfly? Is that an oversized fox roaming around underneath? This is a rad little drawing. I think this may be what heaven looks like.
dinosaur just chillin' in a tree catching a dragonfly. prehistoric times were the shit.
although never yet having commented on a find here, i always feel sorry for those finds that get so far through the day with no comments.
its almost as though its been lost for a second time.
strange, that it should be this one, dinosaurs, that i come across, after spending most of my time recently going through and packing up boxes of things that i used to draw, from all those years ago, that wouldnt have been so far from this sort of theme.
i wish them many more, happy, dinosaur filled days
I love how the yellow dinosaur is ambushing the bug from a tree that obviously wouldn't conceal the dino.
Now, are the markings at the bottom grass or little-kid cursive?
What a great drawing! I bet the artist was wrecked too - to have lost it. I would frame that if my child made that.
Geeze- I'm sooo glad that dinosaurs don't just pop out of trees like that....AND that we don't have such giagantic dragon flies either!
I love this find!
That flying thing looks like a huge dragon fly....ug...not something I'D like to eat for lunch! At first I thought the treeasouras was a Zebra with razor sharp teeth!
Eggs85778 , WTF?!
Look Out dinosaurs......that's a meteor exploding over to the right......sadly, you guys are goners....
Hey, I know I should th in k before I write, why in the world are you WTFing me? Did I say something to offend you?
1 dragon fly
2 dinosaurs
3 palm trees
nice, I can count!
I wonder if the artist wasn't sure how to draw the legs so he ( only boys can draw dinos of course..haha) just made it coming out of a tree .
You call this art!?
The composition is terrible - the artist clearly didn't activate his or her negative space. Ever heard of linear perspective? It's not like it has been around since the early 1400s...
The colour scheme along with the black outlines make everything feel flat - though much can't be said for the concept either. Considering it's such an archetypical piece, one would assume that proper proportions have already been established in previous, more accomplished works by other artists.
I can't say I approve of such a childish medium either.
Behn, why do u have 2 b so negative? its obviously a kid, seriously i think every1 knows that, its so stupid that ud write that, ur forgetting u were a kid 2 once!!
First of all, Emily: he's kidding. It's a joke.
Second, Juliana in Toronto, the reverse T-rex is the single funniest thing I have ever heard.
k wendy, i no he was jokin my bf always makes jks like that but sumtimes u have 2 no when ur takin it 2 far.
im just sayin, im not trying 2 b a b*tch or nething
There is no such thing as too much sarcasm.
I want to live in this picture. Do you guys think the dinos would eat me?
(By the way, you commenters make this site even better. Keep on keepin' on.)
This is truly a masterpeice of modern art. It's radical composition, bold choices and tongue in cheek references to the history of the art world make it the sort of masterpeice that can only be appreciated by the most sophisticated of art afficianados.
Bold monochomatic color choices and repeated patterns establish a stable unified peice, which is then disrupted by single, centrally located exceptions to the pattern. For example: the central tree, that one round-leafed shrub. Clearly the artist is saying "i am an exceptional man living in a world of mediocrity." Am i the only one who sees loneliness in the red dinosaur's posture? Or frustration in the frenetic mark making in the lower third of the peice?
Compositionally, this theme (the ubermench surrounded by banality) is solidified and contextualized within the history of art. We see a vertical triptych with foreground, middle ground and background represented on a flat plain. This choice creates an unexpected and captivating unity of symbolic references. The flatness (like a goddard film) creates a proletariat tension against the classical catholic triptych form. The choice to inhabit the three conjoined "panels" of the triptych with the different landscape forms, that is earth, surface and sky, rather than the expected son, father, holy spirit formula, recalls buddist imagery of the lotus flower (rooted in the earth, floating on the surface and reaching twoards the heavens) Clearly the artist is stuggling with developing a philosophical approach to the world that unites his western heritage and his explorations of eastern philosophy with his communist ambitions.
The medium used (it appears to be some kind of wax crayon) and the style of markmaking and depiction of the figures mocks art history. Drawing the sunlight with light strokes overlapping the rest of the peice pokes fun at the impressionist movement, the perspective used in the figures recalls primitive art movements (to say nothing of the content of the peice itself) and the "childlike" medium all seem to say: "how is it possible that the artworld is at once too naive and too ossified to be accepted by me?"
I think I love you.
you should.
Emily, please, please learn how to spell and or type.
sarah i no ur just jelous
I don't think they're dinosaurs. Well, I don't want to think them as...