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Here are contemporary elephant art and famous elephant paintings by top artists. Being the biggest animal on land, the role of elephant oil painting is also a common theme for fine art, Toperfect shows paintings of Asian elephant, African bush elephants and African forest elephants. Elephants have been represented in art that contains many rock paintings and engravings, motifs in Hindu and Buddhist shrines and temples. In Europe during the 15th century, depictions of them became more accurate, including elephant painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

Elephant paintings are particularly difficult to master for some painters, but when enough imagination is inputted, it is fabulous. The large and sometimes burly animals known as elephants can look small in a painting if done incorrectly. Many artists have figured out how to scale elephants perfectly in paintings, showing the massive size of their animal friends without dialing back the environment too much. And there are even elephant paintings that show a calm side of the animals, often caring or protecting their young. Although some of the elephant oil paintings are African based with their content, there are plenty that have originated outside of the country. -- The Copyright of Scripts is Reserved by Toperfect.