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| Uncertainty by Mark James Porter, 2011 |
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| Uncertainty by Mark James Porter, 2011 |
This website is about frogs. Not just any frogs, but paintings of frogs. Long-time frog lover (among other small creatures) and art enthusiast Catherine, creator of this website, felt it only right to do some research about frogs in painting, her preferred medium of art. This website is a fan page of sorts to all wonderful and weird depictions of frogs throughout time. The title is a play of one of her favourite books, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling, about a wonderful man with another amphibian name. While Catherine would love to have the website as a database of fantastical froggy art, her limited coding ability (and time) only allowed her to include so many frog pics. She hopes that this website will continue to grow as she finds more frogs that strike her fancy. Hopefully, one day, there will be a photograph of a frog added to this website. This will mean that Catherine has achieved her goal of acquiring a pet frog, a real-life piece of art that she will own.
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| Still-Life with Insects and Amphibians by Otto Marseus van Schrieck, 1662 | Dead Frog With Flies by Ambrosius Bosschaert II, 1630 |
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| Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel, c.1970 | Frog and Mouse by Getsuju, Edo Period |
Frogs have existed in many times and places throughout history, hence why they have been depicted for so long, and by so many cultures. I've added a short description from Wikipedia about the significance of frogs in art and culture.
The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped animals and often depicted frogs in their art. [21] Painters of the Dutch Golden Age sometimes included frogs in their compositions;[22] for example, Ambrosius Bosschaert II painted a vanitas still life Dead Frog with Flies c. 1630; in 2012, the artists Rob and Nick Carter created a silent digital version, lasting three hours, in which the "still" image "slowly, imperceptibly" changes with the movement of the sun, and occasionally an insect such as a dragonfly enters the scene. [23]
The theme of transformation features prominently in popular culture, from The Frog Prince to fantasy settings such as the Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger video games with magic spells that turn people into frogs.[24]
Michigan J. Frog featured in a Warner Brothers cartoon.[25] Kermit the Frog is the straight man character in Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.[26]
Several Pokemon species are based on frogs and toads, such as the Poliwrath, Politoed, Seismitoad, and Greninja evolutionary families.[27][28]
Pepe the Frog is a frog character from a webcomic which became a popular Internet meme , and was eventually appropriated as a symbol of the controversial alt-right movement.