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Considerations of humanity and hogritude, because an insufficiency of pigs is one of the great faults of all that the gods have made manifest to man.

Category Archives: Art

Discussion, examples and commentary on works of art in which pigs are the inspiration, subject matter, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.

Poetry Updates for April 2010

In the Porkopolis.org Library, poetry updates for mid-April include: an eccentric Anglican; a moveable feast; diction adapted to a certain class of readers; lawyers, not pigs in time of famine; hogs and men hunted and penned in an inglorious spot; and lastly, perpetual promises, but to no good ends. The poet Robert Peters discusses Gyp, [...]

Russell, Gregory, Yeats and the Black Pig

A new work of art has been added to the Porkopolis.org Art Museum. For me it is also the point of departure for considering how friends might utilize humor as a tension reliever and a coping mechanism for momentarily dispelling their concerns over the consequential matters that embroiled their days. Here, the humor employed is sarcasm and the implementation is through a humorous drawing of a pig and bit of doggerel.

A Wolf Loves Pork

Here is a stop-motion animation short film about a hungry wolf and a fleeing pig.