"Pigcasso" And Friends

painting chimp, Jimmy, Brazil, zoo — AP Photo/Felipe Dana

Jimmy, a 26-year-old chimpanzee paints a cardboard at a zoo in Niteroi, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. The retired circus chimp is the Cezanne of simians, drawing crowds to a Brazilian zoo to watch him paint.

Jimmy, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, paints on cardboard at a zoo in Niteroi, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. The monkey's paintings have been catching everyone's attention at a Brazilian zoo and an exhibition is in the works.

Jimmy, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, and Roched Seba, who has been teaching him how to paint, holds a painting made by the chimp at a zoo in Niteroi, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. Seba said Jimmy doesn't like the toys and other diversions that other chimps enjoy. So three weeks ago, he introduced Jimmy to painting after reading about animals in zoos elsewhere that enjoyed a little canvas time.

An Orangutan points at a painting it just painted at the zoo in Heidelberg, southwestern Germany, on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. The paintings by the Orangutans will be auctioned for the benefit of the zoo's monkey house.

Sammy, a foxhound mix, uses a paintbrush attached to a rubber bone to paint a canvas on June 12, 2007, at a gallery at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md. Mary Stadelbacher, owner of Shore Service Dogs, has a collection of abstract paintings daubed by her three service dogs in training.

Sammy, a foxhound mix, uses a paintbrush attached to a rubber bone, to paint a canvas on June 12, 2007, at a gallery at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md. Pictures of bright strokes across white canvasses are winning fans because of their tail-wagging creators.

A painting by Sammy, a foxhound mix, is shown on June 12, 2007, at a gallery at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md. Sammy is a service dog in training. The doggie da Vinci and two other service dogs have a line of greeting cards that has sold out as word spreads about the unusual works of art. One of the original works has sold for $350.

Elephants paint on a canvas during a Guinness World Record attempt for the most expensive painting by elephants at Maesa elephant camp in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, on Feb. 19, 2005. The elephants used acrylic colors on the 2.4-meter-high, 6-meter-long canvas called "Wind, Mist, Lanna Charm Number One." A painting by eight elephants previously sold for a record price of $39,500.

Taking a well-deserved rest, the elephant artists pose for a group photo next to their masterpiece at the Maesa elephant camp in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, on Feb. 19, 2005.

Pinto, an accomplished painter for a Yucatan miniature pig, gets his snout into an original work of art on Feb. 23, 2006, at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Using a selection of non-toxic primary colors, Pinto mixes them in innovative ways (hooves, snout, objects and sometimes food items) to create his one-of-a-kind masterpieces.

Brookfield Zoo keeper Frank Brader shows Pinto the painting pig his finished work of art on Feb. 23, 2006. The little "pig-casso" uses his hooves, snout and other objects to push paint around a canvas to create one-of-a-kind creations.

Pinto, an accomplished painter for a Yucatan miniature pig, gets his hooves into an original work of art on Feb. 23, 2006, at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. The paintings were shown at the zoo on National Pig Day.

Pinto, a Yucatan miniature pig, gets his hooves into an original work of art on Feb. 23, 2006, at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Using a selection of primary, non-toxic paint colors, Pinto mixes them in innovative ways using his hooves, snout, objects and sometimes food to create his masterpieces.

Koopa, a Gulf Coast box turtle, creates a summer-themed custom ordered painting for a buyer in Australia at the home of his owner, Kira Varszegi in Hartford, Conn., on Aug. 24, 2004. Koopa's paintings sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars, and his pieces hang in 35 of the 50 states.

Look Khob, a 4-year old elephant artist, uses his trunk to paint during a show at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in northern Lampang province, north of Bangkok, The paintings were exhibited and promoted internationally to raise public awareness on the plight of Asian elephants.

While no photo of the artist was available, this materpiece was created by Congo the Chimp in 2005.