Meet Cholla (pronouced 'Choya') an artist from Reno, NV who, at the age of 24, is already winning awards at juried art competitions in Italy and getting solo exhibits from San Francisco to New York. Oh, and he's a horse. Apparently he miraculously 'picked up' painting after he got into the habit of following his owner around when she painted the fence outside his corral. Eventually, she saw his potential to make money and gave him a paintbrush, watercolors, and a piece of paper. The rest, as they say, is history. His work has been (unironically) compared to Jackson Pollack and Resnick, and his paintings have sold for up to $2,200. Which clearly must make his owner and "assistant" Renee Chambers very, very happy. Shit, I'd be happy too if I had a horse that paid his own rent.
Art lover and critic John Yimin said of viewing Cholla's work on video: "I saw intelligence, purpose, and a differing vision exposed to me for the first time. I was and remain awed."
Fun fact: a horse has a brain comparable to the size of a large walnut!
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That is so cool!
great painting.
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hahaha! awesome
HOOOOOLY, wowza that is too cool!
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How cool is that??
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unbelievable and cool!
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hilarious
great painting:)
Lol, I love this...the randomness is hilarious!
But (and I don't know which camp I'm throwing myself into here), I adore that painting....haha.
ahahah wow
urrrghh awesome blog. did you know there are elephants in thailand that do painting too? and the paper they use is made out their own turd.
awesome! i also love the elephants that paint, have you seen them?
I can't believe that about the horse haha I literally laughed out loud xx
ahhhh this is great! gonna try to teach my cat to paint haha :)
Awed!!! is the right key word here! ~Fab weekend to you dear XO*
i swear i'm going to give my dog a paintbrush when i get home from work!
xox
yeah great, now I have to turn myself into a horse just to get people to like my art? damn life is hard.
tssskk...horse is now an artist... cool but sad.. ;P
hhahaha, ok, that's funny, but i think that if the horse like painting, and what he "creats" is beautiful... why not paying for it? i mean, i would love having a horse's painting in the wall xD
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cool blog!!
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what an amazing horse! fab post and thanks for sharing.
muah x
marian
that's amazing:D dude, what if horses start working alongside humans, get smarter and take over the world? it started with a painting...
I recently read about a two-year-old girl who is already an acclaimed artist and whose paintings sell for large sums of money and even get exhibited. Even then I found it debatable whether she's really a genius or it's just clever marketing from her parents' side (who are both artists as well). But a horse? Really? ... then there's still hope for me who's never gone to art school after all! :)
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Hahaha wow!
thanks for posting this!
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I hear about this a while ago but I didnt believe it ha xoxoox
LOL! love that funfact ;)
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that is amazing! what an amazing animal!
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what?!?! wow. ok. that awesome
wow that is cool!!
that is unreal..but of course something like that would be true..theres such crazy stuff now a days..but i love horses!
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hahah so cool
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So amazing!! I've seen a show about animal artists!
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Merry Christmas to you and yours! Have a very merry weekend filled with love, happiness and laughter!
wow that's crazy! haha
ahahah thats crazy!
LOL that hilariously awesome!!
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Ah! How interesting! I would so be down for an art-making animal. That's just super COOL.
In Thailand, I actually saw all these elephants making art. It was FABULOUS.
Gosh. New life goal. Teach an animal to make art!
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