Monkey  

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The Monkey Connoisseurs (1837) by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

As "Darwinism" became widely accepted in the 1870s, good-natured caricatures of him with an ape or monkey body symbolised evolution.

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Any of several ape-like primates, generally smaller than the apes, and distinguished from them by having a tail and cheek pouches. Metaphorically, a mischievous child.

Monkeys in art

Monkeys have been a favourite subject in art through the ages: paintings by Gabriel von Max, Joseph Schippers, Chardin, Alexandre Gabriel Decamps and Edwin Landseer; the photography of Jill Greenberg and the sculpture of Emmanuel Frémiet are some examples. And at the low art end of the spectrum, there is King Kong.

Singerie

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Singerie is the French word for "Monkey Trick". It is a genre depicting monkeys apeing human behavior, often fashionably attired, intended as a diverting sight, always with a gentle cast of mild satire. It revived with the French decorator and designer Jean Berain the Elder, who included dressed figures of monkeys in a lot of his wall decorations, and the great royal ébéniste André-Charles Boulle.

More examples

• Jean Baptiste Deshays de Colleville, Monkey Painter[1], c. 1750
• Abraham Teniers, Barbierstube mit Affen und Katzen, 1647
• William Holbrook Beard, Discovery of Adam, 1891
• Richard Müller, Philosophers, 1918
• Gabriel von Max, Affe vor Skelett[2], c. 1890

References

• The Monkey in Art (1994) by Ptolemy Tompkins

See also

• Animal art

See also

• Monkey painting
• The Monkey's Paw
• Infinite monkey theorem