Sorry if such a thread already existed or if I posted this in the wrong subgroup, but I couls not find anything that helped me with the questions I have.
I i know of the identification media thread but the species images and other footage I need help to identify is from other parties like youtube or wikipedia and neither do I have an idea if that would be legal nor how I would post that on here.
Any way beside being an enthusiast of all things nature I am also interested in art and I regularly cocme across works depicting animals and I often ask myself what species the artis has painted.
One example are two relatively similar pictures by Paul Gauguin showing fruit doves.
As far as I know was Gauguin on Java, Tahiti and the Marquesas, so I compared them to species native to these areas, but could not make out one particular species, so I wanted to ask if some of you might be able to help.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...uin_Nature_morte_aux_oiseaux_exotiques_II.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...guin_Nature_morte_aux_oiseaux_exotiques_I.jpg
Note tho art (unlike scienfitific depictions) obwiously includes the element of personal modification I dare to argue that these two paintings might be an attempt to represent the specimens the closest possible.
I i know of the identification media thread but the species images and other footage I need help to identify is from other parties like youtube or wikipedia and neither do I have an idea if that would be legal nor how I would post that on here.
Any way beside being an enthusiast of all things nature I am also interested in art and I regularly cocme across works depicting animals and I often ask myself what species the artis has painted.
One example are two relatively similar pictures by Paul Gauguin showing fruit doves.
As far as I know was Gauguin on Java, Tahiti and the Marquesas, so I compared them to species native to these areas, but could not make out one particular species, so I wanted to ask if some of you might be able to help.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...uin_Nature_morte_aux_oiseaux_exotiques_II.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...guin_Nature_morte_aux_oiseaux_exotiques_I.jpg
Note tho art (unlike scienfitific depictions) obwiously includes the element of personal modification I dare to argue that these two paintings might be an attempt to represent the specimens the closest possible.