Wolves are one of the most popular subjects of wildlife art and photography. They are strongly archetypal . . . used in many contexts to represent particular qualities, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always powerfully evocative.

Some great links on wolves . . .

Interesting Facts And Stories About The Wolf. (article)

Alaskan Wolves. (article)

The Grey Wolf. (Wikipedia page). Largest of the wolves.

Eurasian Wolf . (Wikipedia page), sub-species of the grey wolf.

Red Wolf. (Wikipedia page). Lives in southern US.

Arctic Wolf. (Wikipedia page). Another sub-species of Grey Wolf.

Eastern Wolf. (Wikipedia page). Probably a distinct species, related to the red wolf.

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Gray Wolf

An amazing wolf photo, the intense gaze of the wolf

appearing from out of the dark birch forest, so well camoflaged

and at home in its wilderness. Wise and wild yet somehow gentle.

Mountain Ranger

A grey wolf among the silver birches and the white of the snow,

focussed and alert yet calm and in control.

Wolves

Three powerful and beautiful wolves gazing with focussed intensity

their fur black, cream and almost orange, keeping them hidden among the

shadows of the winter forest.

Gray Wolf

The hidden wolf, almost unseen in the habitat it is so perfectly adapted to.

It’s colors matching the bark of the trees of the forest, it’s ability to see

without being seen. Powerful and mysterious, wise and elusive in its wilderness home.

WWF - Grey Wolf

Bright with intelligence, the focussed gaze of the wise wolf in winter.

Timber Wolf

The timber wolf moving through the winter forest, intensely aware of

its environment, at home in its endless wilderness.

White Wolf, Pair in Winter, USA

The strange white wolves of the arctic, aloof and distant in their frozen home.

Portrait of A Wolf print
The unpredictable tempermant of the wild wolf, the subtle beauty
of its markings adapting it superbly to its wilderness environment.

Timber Wolf
A tall slim wolf in its winter wilderness, infinitely varying grays of its fur

against the cool white of the snow.

Grey Wolf Portrait, USA
The intense but calm gaze of the wolf, warm in its beautiful fur,

at home in the endless northern forests.

Wolf Gaze
Agression and warning, the intensity of its gaze an expression of

the power of its determination for survival and freedom.

Gray Wolf, Canis Lupus
A relaxed family group of pale wolves, so comfortable in each others company.

Woodland Pride, Montana
The alert gaze of the proud wolf, the beauty of its long fur

expressing the health and vitality of its ability to survive

in the winter wilderness.

Close View of Wolf
The face of the wolf . . . intense yet calm, focussed yet aware of everything.

Close-up of a Wolf, Canis Lupus
The dark wolf, supreme hunter of the northern forests.

Wolf postcard
Focussed curiosity and intelligence, supreme survival ability.

Two Gray Wolves Touch Noses during a Tender Moment
A tender moment between confirming the togetherness of the pack.

Female Timber Wolf Resting, Northern, Canada
Gray wolf in a gray land.

Gray Wolf Near Birch Tree Trunks, Canis Lupus, MN
Gazing from between the birches, clever and curious, able and alert.

Call of the Wild
The howl in the wilderness, the sound of the wild.

Winter Wolf
A powerful presense rarely seen in its winter wilderness.

Grey or Timber Wolf (Canis Lupus) in the Alaskan Snow, Alaska, USA
Pale grays against the cool snow, self-reliant pride in its wild life.

A Portrait of a Wolf (Canis Lupus)
White wolf in the vast gray wilderness.

Grey Wolf in Woodland, Minnesota, USA
Black wolfs gaze . . . nothing escapes the intelligence behind those eyes.


Pacing the wild beach in prefect step with each other,

wolf-shadows gray on the untouched sand.

Wolf in Snow, MT

Timber Wolf
Wolf on the prowl, no escape.

Captive Wolf Pup with Parent
The alert wolf mother ready to defend her pup.

Jumper

Wolf springs . . . focussed and aware in the perfect grace of its instinctual flow.

Prowling Wolf card
beware!

Smell the Breeze

Intense focussed curiosity, alert alive will.

Tiger Cub Art Print print

Tiger Cub Art Print

Cute and fierce at the same time!

Fox Profile print

Fox Profile

The fox :- clever, alert, wise.

Soft fur you want to stroke but a wild independance that says you’d better not.

Alligator With Golfball Print print

Alligator With Golfball Print

The powerfully unpredictable aligator . . .

might lie still for days, then move in an instant.

Snow Leopard print

Snow Leopard

Rare, beautiful and precious, the shy hunter of the wild mountains.

Channel-billed Toucan print

Channel-billed Toucan

It could only be the tropics, with the toucans extraordinary bill and strong colors.

You can almost smell the jungle!

Mandrill Monkey print

Mandrill Monkey

The mandrill . . . reminds us of ourselves in some ways yet at the same time

beyond human comprehension in its wildness and strangeness.

Arctic Tale print

Arctic Tale

Safe and warm in mothers protection.

Polar bear :- the most powerful hunter in its region yet a tender and gentle mother.

The Lion print

The Lion

King of the beasts and he knows it!

Bursting with latent power and proud ferocity.

Mule Deer Herd print

Mule Deer Herd

Alert for the slightest sound . . . perfectly still yet poised ready to

spring into action in an instant.

Snowy Owl print

Snowy Owl

Beautiful and superbly adapted to its arctic life,

with warm soft plumage and silent flight.

Mule-Deer-In-Velvet print

Mule-Deer-In-Velvet

The young stag biding its time with dreams of its future,

it’s antlers steadily growing into the armoury it will need to make its challenges

when the time comes.

Winter Chickadee card

Winter Chickadee

A splash of cheerful life on a cold winters day.

Meet the Wolf Pack print

Meet the Wolf Pack

Intensely curious and wise in the ways of their survival,

the wolf pack working togther with intelligence and cunning.

Head of a bird of prey card

Head of a bird of prey

The bald eagle  . . . proud, capable, with a bill that can rip flesh from bones,

ideally suited to its life in the challenge of the north.

Florida Flamingo 1 print

Florida Flamingo 1

You can almost feel the tropical heat from this image,

with the flamingoes extraordinary bright reds and pinks, and astounding shape.

Snowy owl postcard

Snowy owl

Poised alert and ready to spring into the air in an instant rush of soft silent wings.

A recent blog post featured currently popular wildlife posters.  This reminded me to say something about the difference between aesthetics and emotions in arts.

Aesthetics is usually considered to be beauty/ugliness, but recent research in “spiritual” areas shows that pure aesthetics is really use of the physical universe “formulas” (ie. ways to contruct things) without participating in the designated Game of the physical universe (the game could be described as “achieving goals”). The dichotomy of beauty/ugliness is actually aesthetics PLUS game considerations. This is obvious from the fact that what is considered “beautiful” changes according to health concerns of a particular age . . . a few hundred years ago, a beautiful woman was a woman who was fat, because fat women had enough food to eat, where-as more recently beauty is a thin woman who is healthier than someone overweight. Yet at both times, facial symtry is considered beautiful, because certain genetic diseases lead to unsymetrical faces. So beauty is aesthetics plus aligment with physical universe game-goals (usually the goal of survival).

Generally, “fine art” focusses on aesthetics and popular imagery focusses on emotions more than aesthetics. This should be obvious if one compares the popular wildlife posters featured in a recent blog post with fine art wildlife images (such as the majority of the artists listed under “wildlife art by artist”).

Of course, the distinction is somewhat blurred . . . fine art can sometimes focus on emotions as well as aesthetics, such as :-

Stubbs,George

Landseer,E. H.

. . . the “romantic” art period was very much about emotions. Also, fine art can, at times, be popular (often due to lower classes emulating higher classes in society).

To give an example from another art form . . . compare early Pink Floyd with The Beatles. The Beatles is much more popular, and is very much emotions, but early Pink Floyd is much more about the aesthetics even though similar sounds and notes used in both and people who don’t know what aesthetics is would say they sound very nearly “the same”.

Another spiritual fact is that there are precisely delimited levels of humans . . . the caste system used in India (although implemented incorrectly, and full of false data) is a lot more correct than the rest of the world saying everyone is the same. There are humans with a spirit, and humans with no spirit (this is made clear in original yoga data, and is confirmed precisely by recent research) . . . a human body with no spirit has no contact with aesthetics at all. Of course there are humans with a spirit who ignore their spirit and so ignore aesthetics! What this means in practice is that what is popular in the arts will be more about emotions, where as “fine art” (in whatever medium . . . the term could be applied to music just as correctly as visual arts) is focussing on aesthetics (some recent Fine Art is anti-aesthetic, which is still focussing on aesthetics by opposing it!).

Comments welcome, of course . . . I am sure not everyone will agree with what I say here :)

Just a quick note to let you all know that we’ve added 3 new wildlife artists in the last couple of days . . .

ShosonOhara

Coleman, Michael

Botke,
Jessie Arms

Here are some of the world’s most popular wildlife posters (interesting to note that none of the most popular 100 wildlife art posters is by a famous artist) . . .

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North American Marine Wildlife


North American Marine Wildlife, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . killer whales, dolphins, seals, sea-lions, walruses, shark, seabirds, fish and coral . . . all the drama and spectacle of marine wildlife. Reminds you of the experience of seeing this drama for yourself, in all its spectacular and dangerous splendour.


African Wildlife II, Elephant


African Wildlife II, Elephant Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . .An African elephant . . . capturing the essense of Africa . . . the dusty brown earth, the dryness of the elephant’s skin, looking at this poster almost makes you feel like you’re there!


African Wildlife I, Lion


African Wildlife I, Lion, Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . African lion, the king of beats, proud, capable, the master of his domain.


African Wildlife III, Zebra


African Wildlife III, Zebra Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . the zebra . . . could only be Africa! Have you seen them on safari? Would you like to?


African Wildlife IV, Leopard


African Wildlife IV, Leopard Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . the loepard, the most effective predator in Africa . . . kills using stealth and power, intelligence and raw ferocity.


Wildlife Mosaics Tiger


Wildlife Mosaics Tiger Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . tiger and other Asian wildlife . . . I’ve been on safari in India and seen them live . . . it was an amazing experience . . . the immense power and grace, the majesty and the intensity of the focus of their gaze. What does the tiger represent to YOU?


Wildlife Mosaics Bear


Wildlife Mosaics Bear Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . Bears and other northern New World wildlife . . . featuring bears, what do they represent to you? . . . power, ability to survive, ferocity, wildness, intelligence??


Wildlife Mosaics Wolf


Wildlife Mosaics Wolf Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . Wolves and other northern New World wildlife. The wolf is such an evocative symbol of wilderness, wisdom, survival ability . . . look at this poster and you can almost hear the wolves howling.


Nature's Wildlife III


Nature’s Wildlife III Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . the gentle forest, with deer and other wildlife . . .  warm, welcoming, wild yet accessible, natural yet inviting.


Nature's Wildlife II


Nature’s Wildlife II Art Print, Buy at AllPosters.com

. . . pheasants and mallards . . . British game birds . . . the smells of the fields and coppices, the familiar yet fascinating world on the edge between the wild and human worlds. I can’t wait to get back there, hear the pheasants calls at sunset, see the mallards flying in to the river, hear the wind through their wings.


For more of the 472 most popular wildlife posters . . .

Wildlife Posters

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For 35,000 animal posters (includes domestic animals) . . .

Animal Posters

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