# Cholla the horse that paints

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 4, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cholla-the-horse-that-paints/584302 "2011-06-04T12:29:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cholla-the-horse-that-paints/584302/1 "2011-06-04T12:29:40Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NB4lVmL5wkU/hqdefault.jpg "Cholla the painting horse - il cavallo pittore") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB4lVmL5wkU)

Some of them are beautiful! Remind me of freeform shodō.

I love Cholla!

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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cholla-the-horse-that-paints/584302/2 "2011-06-04T13:44:58Z")

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Very very cool! His paintings look every bit as good as the ‘modern art’ you see in galleries everywhere.

Does anyone remember the painting elephant?

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/He7Ge7Sogrk/hqdefault.jpg "ORIGINAL Elephant Painting") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk)

I know there was a lot of controversy because it was a ‘trained behavior’, but trained or not, that elephant was THINKING about every brush stroke, even went back and re-traced some that weren’t dark enough to suit him/her.

Animals are flat out amazing.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cholla-the-horse-that-paints/584302/3 "2011-06-04T15:14:53Z")

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How about [the painting cats](http://www.amazon.com/Why-Cats-Paint-Theory-Aesthetics/dp/0898156122/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307200445&sr=1-3), while we’re at it?

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cholla-the-horse-that-paints/584302/4 "2011-06-04T15:22:19Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> How about [the painting cats](http://www.amazon.com/Why-Cats-Paint-Theory-Aesthetics/dp/0898156122/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307200445&sr=1-3), while we’re at it?

I know someone who has that as a coffee table book. It’s very good. And had me suckered for about 15 minutes.