Art Art &Daily post 21 Aug 2008 08:55 am

- Following up the Rico LeBrun post from yesterday, here are some stills from an exhibition at the natural history museum in Basel, Switzerland. It imagines what the bone structure of some cartoon characters may look like.

The show is called Animatus. South Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee uses the techniques of paleontologists to create the skeletons of familiar comic figures such.



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Bugs Bunny in all three above images.

Drawings of Bugs and Felix

Two views of Felix

Road runner and Wil E. Coyote

Donald Duck

Huey, Dewey & Louie and Donald Duck

The sculptures are constructed of resin, aluminum sticks, stainless steel wires,

springs, brass bean and oil paint. They’re on wooden pedestals.

Tom & Jerry

A drawing of Mickey.

Hyungkoo Lee and other sculptors at work on the skeletons.

I’d formerly featured this sculptor’s work when the show opened in a Korean art gallery.

You should also take a look at Michael Paulus’ work, which I’ve featured several times. He has done this very thing years ago, and his work is quite humorous.