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Good morning everyone but especially to #ThisPig
This extravagantly square pig, a portent of squareness, lives rent-free in the mind of each and every LEGO brick. Even the bravest Bionicles tremble in awe at the thought of it
After this pig was done striking the sublime into LEGO, it used its extremely crisp angles to single-handedly invent Minecraft
We are reminded of #ThisPig because archaeologists recently found the world's oldest animal cave painting: this incredible, 45,000 year old Sulawesi warty pig. What it lacks in right-angles it makes up for in length (metres) and length (existence) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-55657257
This, also a painting from our collection, is making the rounds again at the mo, and is worth us returning to in any thread collating Arrestingly Angular Animal Art https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/1339902524791402502
The painting at the top of this thread was by R. Whitford (object number MERL 65/354), produced in 1872. A beautiful year to be a pig on canvas
Why is this pig so square? Read our blog on the history of livestock portraiture https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2015/10/consuming-the-fat-cows/
Why is this pig so square? Read our blog on the history of livestock portraiture https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2015/10/consuming-the-fat-cows/
The genre you didn't know your Thursday morning needed, and that we also didn't know your Thursday morning needed, until this pig appeared in our mind's eye, like a vision from a very square god, which is when we knew wholeheartedly that you did
This pig chat is coming full circle https://twitter.com/AshmoleanMuseum/status/1349684401840513024
This small pig has a big snout and an even bigger personality https://twitter.com/FitzMuseum_UK/status/1349697693195632642
it is also wearing, because of course it is, shoes
This is the closest yet that the evolution of pigs has come to Jigglypuff https://twitter.com/bristolmuseum/status/1349763553104973827
If this is the kind of piggy bank they're giving to John F. Kennedy, just imagine how beautiful a piggy bank they'll be getting for #ThisPig https://twitter.com/JFKLibrary/status/1349770053852520455
