Draw some more and make a family of cows.
Lunar New Year Craft: How to Draw a Cow (Ox) for Kids in 6 Easy Steps
Chinese New Year 2021 is the Year of the Ox! Let’s explore this animal zodiac by drawing a cow.
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Now, grab your pencil and paper, and let’s go!
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Lunar New Year 2021 – The Year of the Ox (Cow)
Chinese New Year 2021 is the Year of the Ox! It starts on February 12, 2021, and will last until January 31, 2022. The next Year of the Ox will be in 2033.
The Lunar New Year 2021 animal is the ox. Aside from the animal sign in the Chinese Zodiac, there is also a cycle of five important elements – wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.
The cycle falls in the metal for the year 2021.
Ox and the other Chinese zodiac animals
The Ox is the second in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac animals .
The other zodiac signs, in order (from left to right), are:
Warhol’s Cows were inspired by the art dealer Ivan Karp.
Cow (F. & S. II.11A) © Andy Warhol 1971
Ivan Karp, renowned Pop Art dealer of the 1960s, inspired Warhol’s Cow works after a flippant conversation about Warhol’s subject matter. As Warhol recollected, “another time he said, ‘Why don’t you paint some cows, they’re so wonderfully pastoral and such a durable image in the history of the arts.’” Under Karp’s influence, Warhol inserted his unnaturally coloured cows into this art historical lineage.
The Cow screen prints were made into wallpaper.
Cows © Andy Warhol 1966
For his 1966 exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, Warhol had an entire room of the gallery covered in a wallpaper of his pink and yellow Cow. From floor to ceiling, the screen printed image was repeated over and over to create a dizzying kaleidoscope of cows. The concept bordered on the absurd, but showcased Warhol’s penchant for screen printing which would come to define him as an artist.
Warhol transformed the ‘pastoral‘ cow into a ‘vulgar‘ creature.
Cow (F. & S. II.11) © Andy Warhol 1966
Though Karp had convinced Warhol to depict cows for their ‘pastoral‘ appeal, Warhol worked to make his Cow as unnatural as possible. Though Karp was shocked when he first saw Warhol’s conception, Warhol remembered, “after a moment he exploded with: ‘They’re super-pastoral! They’re ridiculous! They’re blazingly bright and vulgar!’ I mean, he loved those cows and for my next show we papered all the walls in the gallery with them.”
