Dogs in Collegian

My Cousin's Fabulous Alpaca

Dr. Theodore Bear's Fabulous cousin, (Kathy's Alpaca).

Printing Digital Canvas

I had the most success at Office Depot in Burleson and at https://www.canvasonsale.com/  or  https://www.bestcanvas.com/ (note) I had a groupon for everything that I ordered for these two places.

Kara English -True Fraudulent Iconology

October 4^th to November 1^st

Carillon Gallery

Reception October 4^th 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Joe B. Rushing Performance Hall

Tarrant County College South Campus

5301 Campus Drive

Fort Worth, TX 76119

In a culture of high tech animated art in film, comics and literature, society makes new visual symbols and icons at a rapid pace.  An iconologist studies these visual images and symbols used in interpreting art. An iconoclast destroys and icon especially political or religious icons, attacking cherished beliefs or institutions. Neither of these terms correctly define Kara English’s work.  To this end the artist created a new definition, True Fraudulent Iconology. This is a combination of studying and appropriating icons while developing a continued meaning dependent on that first interpretation of the original works meaning.  The resulting art work does not have meaning without an understanding of that first icon.  The subsequent artwork is meant as pure satire with no disrespect intended to the original icon.

Mankind has a long history of anthropomorphic images in art including the Minotaur, a being with the head and tail of a bull and a human body, and Anubis, a deity with the body of a man and head of a jackal.  Today popular culture includes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mickey Mouse and Snoopy as a few well known anthropomorphic images. These images help contemporary man to take refuge in fantasy and derive hope, or at least relief in use of satire. This contemporary culture feeds the whimsy in English’s work. 

 As an eight year old with her first camera she began dressing her dog and cats in doll cloths and photographing her first anthropomorphic images. English has a degree in both Journalism and in Art, and using this combination she continued in this practice in the creation of children’s books. She began to examine cultural tendencies to dress and treat pets as children, and as toys.  The resulting images were of, “Teddy Bear, Mr. Theodore Bear”, a book about a West Highland Terrier puppy. In this creation English took and edited hundreds of photographs of dogs dressed as teddy bears in various childlike situations.  She still use many of these images in current works.  

On the Dogwalk by Monsieur Pas Manet

English began working with icons and satire by furthering Theodore Bear into a counterfeit world in the creation of an art blog about “Dr. Theodore Bear”.  Dr. Bear is a West Highland Terrier professor who paints, gives lectures and buys art by other dog artists who paint pictures of other dogs.  She continued to comment on art and famous artists in history through this blog working with contemporary and historic art icons.  Following Dr. Bear she began to counterfeit titles of great films as well as literature using these satirical possibilities with “Little Angel”, a dog librarian and “Tootsie Pop”, a gossip columnist and paparazzi.

Pekingese Waiting for Madame Butterfly by Pierre Poodle Rover

After creating more than one hundred of these images English began to look for ways to print and display this work. She choose mixed media, including a combination of digital printing with paint.  All of these images include digital art in some way.  Even works that are pure paintings that were designed digitally before they were painted.  So join with Kara English a world where the virtual is real and the real is fake.

Pure Little Pup by Green Tail Malays

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Sunny Afternoon Bear Card

Good Afternoon Bear Card
by Dr_Theodore_Bear

Little Geisha Card

Good Evening Little Bear Card
by Dr_Theodore_Bear

Playing With Cards

Dr. Theodore Bear's Little Brown Bear Card
by Dr_Theodore_Bear

Pop Art Geisha

Pop Art Geisha West Highland Terrier Card
by Dr_Theodore_Bear

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Moonshine and You

Little Angel Recommends Sargent Pepper Lonely Dogs Club Band by the Fleas

 My favorite album by the Flea's is Sergent Pepper's Lonely Dog's Club Band .  This beautiful cover is by that pooper pop artist Pee Doggie Max.  I hope that you enjoyed the show!
  ~ Little Angel

Little Angel Recommends Ror Dognarok

Ror

Cata

~Little Angel

Beagel Sanzio da Urbino's Poope Doglius

This conte crayon drawing is another example by the well known doggie artist of the Renaissance, Beagel Sanzio da Urbino.  Beagel is well known for his drawings of Poope Doglius II in the private library of the Dogitan Palace. Here we see Poope Doglius  in his bed chamber. 

Dr Theodore Bear

Second Unexpected Purchase of Da Itchy Drawing

In a second unexpected purchase at Doggiby's Art Auction Dr Theodore Bear obtained this conte pencil drawing by Dogginardo Da Itchy.  "I never dreamed that I would be able to purchase two wonderful Da Itchy Studies!" exclaimed Dr. Bear.  "It is a once in a lifetime chance to own even one of his works and today I own two."

         Always the Art Lover~ Dr Theodore Bear

Charcoal Drawing by Da Itchy

Dr Bear's new find is a charcoal drawing by Dogginardo Da Itchy.  Dogginardo is a well known Renaissance Artist who is famous for his charcoal studies.  "This study of puppies at play is a delightful fun addition to my collection of doggie art"
  ~ Dr. Theodore Bear