{"id":63564,"date":"2014-01-10T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=63564"},"modified":"2014-01-10T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:54:12","slug":"its-the-pachyderm-picasso-elephant-paints-amazing-self-portraits-youll-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=63564","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the pachyderm Picasso! Elephant paints amazing self-portraits you&#8217;ll never forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/elephant-Bangkok.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-63560\" alt=\"\u0553\u056b\u0572, \u056b\u0576\u0584\u0576\u0561\u0576\u056f\u0561\u0580\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/elephant-Bangkok.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/elephant-Bangkok.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/elephant-Bangkok-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/elephant-Bangkok-413x300.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He has a delicate brushstroke and an eye for colour that would give Picasso a run for his money.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s all the more impressive that this impressionist painter is in fact&#8230; an elephant.<\/p>\n<p>Noppakhao, also known as Peter, has churned out dozens of works of art over the years, with some fetching as much as $700.<\/p>\n<p>Noppakhao &#8211; which stands for the &#8216;nine colours of the gemstones&#8217; &#8211; began painting eight years ago as part of the Asian Elephant Art &amp; Conservation Project (AEACP) in Ayutthaya province, nearly 50 miles north of Bangkok.<br \/>\nAccording to the organisation&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantart.com\/catalog\/index.php\/cPath\/72\" target=\"_blank\"> website<\/a>, the 11-year-old bull &#8216;exhibits a wonderful sense of dexterity and control with the paintbrush&#8217; to draw landscapes and floral designs.<\/p>\n<p>Funds from the sale of his work &#8211; some of which come with a price tag of up to $700 &#8211; go towards conservation projects and training caretakers.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, elephant painting has led to accusations that the animals are harshly treated in efforts to train them.<\/p>\n<p>But the AEAC says it &#8216;does not tolerate any abuse of the elephants either while painting or in everyday interaction.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; He has a delicate brushstroke and an eye for colour that would give Picasso&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[5542,5541,5543],"class_list":["post-63564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-elephant","tag-its-the-pachyderm-picasso","tag-self-portraits","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}