Behold the unnervingly rectangular livestock of pastoral art

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/06/behold-the-unnervingly-rectang.html

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A missed opportunity to use an “udderly” pun.

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I think most of the paintings of this style were Georgian, rather than Victorian.

Some of them were portraits of genuine celebrity animals.

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For some reason, they make me think of bonsai kittens.

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At least they fit well into a rectangular frame.

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Me. too! :slight_smile:

So long as nobody uses vertical video. Even though they’re portraits, quadrupeds show best in landscape mode.

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Hmmm…I was always taught you should assume a spherical cow.

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Two of the three pictures that come with our house are of a square cow and a square pig, named Royston and Dahlia respectively.

http://kesslerart.com/

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The actual animals can look remarkably similar to rectangular solids.

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Reminds me square pigs in the Dennis Hopper dumpster fire Space Truckers. Tagline: They’ve shipped everything from square pigs to anti-gravity beer… But now they’ve got a load of real trouble.

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Stock cubes?

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:musical_note: Ooohhh…
Who lives in a pastoral next to the sea?
Spongebull Squareflanks!:musical_note:

Yes, but only in a vacuum. (No, not the “Hoover”.)

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