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A new book of delightful portraits reimagines canines in the style of Old Masters. In Dog: Portraits of Eighty-Eight Dogs and One Little Naughty Rabbit, the artist Tein Lucasson attributes canines (and one rabbit) with an anthropomorphic character by digitally refining their pictures.
From a Jack Russell terrier wearing a pristine white uniform and a pug in a sailor suit to a dalmatian in an admiral’s jacket and a labrador in an aristocratic coat with a ruff, each compelling portrait tells a tale – and is accompanied by a charming, if eccentric, text envisaging the lives of the surreal hybrid protagonists.
There is Olive, an anxious-looking greyhound wearing a white frock, who is conceptualised as “a young bride” who “wonders if life will be better” after the wedding. And brown-eared Boris, who “grew up on a farm” and “didn’t have to think twice when his father asked who would be interested in taking over the business”.
There is also, as the title mentions, a “little naughty rabbit”, artfully depicted as a young child carrying a toy boat. Though the images are created using modern technology, they manage to maintain the grandeur of classical portraiture.
This is Lucasson’s second venture into animorphe pictures, following last year’s Cat: Portraits of Eighty-Eight Cats and One Very Wise Zebra, and surely will not be his last.
‘Dog: Portraits of Eighty-Eight Dogs and One Little Naughty Rabbit’ by Tein Lucasson (£20, teNeues) is published on 27 March.
