The Tiger is a beautiful and fierce feline, strong-willed and independent. Wild at times and playful at others, tigers are sacred, an inspiration and a fantasy.
For all the tiger lovers out there, we start an eye-candy journey through art and illustration with tigers as main characters. All styles and techniques are used to portray them: there is poetry in their stripes!
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Circe ― John Collier (1885).
The mythical sorceress who transformed enemies into animals, a figure of fear and desire.
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Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before awakening ― Salvador Dalí (1944).
In a surrealist dream, his wife and muse Gala sleeps near the vibrant blue sea of Port Lligat.
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The tiger hunt, a close-up ― Rubens (1615-1616).
One of the four decorative paintings of hunting commissioned by Maximilian I of Bavaria for the Schleissheim Palace , the piece reveals wonderfully the extreme violence between animals and humans.
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Tiger ― Franz Marc (1912).
The tension of a predator, surrounded by cubes of strong and violent colours: Death is imminent.
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The Tiger (虎) ― Gao Qifeng
It is the harmony of the opposites, a worshipped symbol and the king of animals.
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Tiger ― Walton Ford
Like a modern Audubon, Ford depicts fauna and flora with all the passion, sex and violence one can find in real nature, and as an allegory to human life.
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Tangled series ― Josh Keyes
Dioramic landscapes in which animals are displayed in a mixture of natural and anthropogenic habitat. Detailed and shocking, his contemporary artworks show the human impact on nature.
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Tiger and kid / Liger ― Magda Boreysza
Also known as Fox & Comet, her illustration are simply amazing, with the just amount of quirky and deliciously oddly. Please, visit her Etsy shop!
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Daria Hlazatova
One of the most intriguing and powerful Ucranian illustrators, her colours and details are amazing. Find more of her work on her instagram
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Michael Parkes
The kind of illustrations that seem painted out of a soft dream in the middle of August. Magical realism in all his pieces, visit his website!
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Jungle Tiger ― Amber Davenport
Naïve and beautiful tigers and many other cool illustrated goods inspired by nature in her Etsy shop.
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Tiger ― Dieter Braun
The well-known illustrator for his wildlife books (South and North), is recognizable for his exquisite use of straight lines and geometry. More on his webpage
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Tiger Star/ Tiger Obsession ― Michela Picchi (also the author of the cover image of this post)
Pop and psychedelia for the funniest tigers on Earth! Check out her work
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Audrey in her tiger version ― Half of WAMD.
‘Time is the substance I am made of.
Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.’ ― Jorge Luis Borges, Labrynthis: Selected stories and other writings.
Do you know any other Tiger-illustrator to add to our GRRRrreat list?