Real Wildlife Art

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Does real wildlife art seem to exist much anymore?  I find when I browse the art, I hit a certain couple of areas that are interesting.  I don't bother to look at the animal category, it's full to the gills with colorful, goofy animal art and cartoon drawings.  It's not like I'm not guilty of said things.  But it's become a very subjective thing, very personal art.  Animals are painted very personal to its owner, to the point where it becomes so boringly personable?  People do complain about things like sparkle animals/emo and such.  I see people more or less using animals as a means of designing things; color design, shape design, sort of looking for a balance and in extreme amounts of it.  For instance a dragon artist made large lower jaws on dragons very popular, curling horns and tail styles.  These things in the end produce a pleasing composition but in the end, do they look like pleasing animals, or are they just designs?  In general, I'm saying it's very rare to find animals painted more in the real and for gains other than personable appeal.  I used to believe the appeal of animals was their remove from our own perspective, but that doesn't seem to be a uniform case.  Most use them for very humanlike interactions and jokes, perhaps playing on the supposed animal's stupidy as a smidge worse than ours.  (Icanhascheezburger logic may apply here)  Therefore, would it be better to see animals in normal settings, or perhaps odd or wildlife settings?  Or is real wildlife boring?
I say this not to express my hate, but curiosity that is the repetitive drawl of animal art, whose heaps of designs and shallow jokes make for a bland or numb experience, too similar to our own.

Any facets of animal art that are worth mentioning?




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Oh hmm there's also a couple of artists whom I think do more "natural" wildlife art, as in, more the alien perspective of it: ~Deer-in-Headlights and ~NocturnalSea ...well those are the only two I can think of right now anyway.