Not so traditional paleoart

So today was a nice day where I handed in my last task for this school year. We had to make a little sort of exersize-thesis in preparation for next year when the bachelor thesis is going to be made. Obviously I wanted to do something around paleoart so after some talks with my teachers I got pointed to do something around abstract art in paleoart, thus I wrote a text about how far one can abstract paleoart before it stops being paleoart.
This is of course a bit of a difficult question because scientific illustration is thought of as always having to be realistic. What I did was making up some rules: if the style allows for anatomical accuracy as far as the style goes, you obey that. An example I used in the text was that in Surrealism one can depict a woolly mammoth according to the scientific consensus, or one can draw a mammoth like the elephants in Dali's "The Temptation of Saint Athony". The former would be paleoart, the latter not. Also, if the style becomes more abstract and details are impossible to show, you still obey to the broad accuracy of the subject. If you don't, that's okay too of course, but I wouldn't count it as paleoart.

So I took a look at certain (post)modern art styles that aren't realism and made some quick works to accompany it and show what I meant. 
I also used a minimal sketch of that you can find here and when talking about paleoart in cartoons/illustrations for children I used some art of Johan Egerkrans and the book Mammoth is Mopey, who in case you haven't seen before, definitely should check out, and there's also a Futurism artwork from Christopher Srnka you can find on his Facebook.


 Normal paleoart example of an Allosaurus.
 Example of speculative paleoart of an Allosaurus.
 Pop art Protoceratops based on the style of Tom Wesselman.  
 Expressionism Tetraceratops. 
 Surrealism Mammuthus lineart sketch thing.
 Cubism Pakicetus.  
 Orphism pair of Sivatherium. 
 Two attempts at an Abstract Expressionism Cheirurus (a trilobite). 
 An attempt at a Constructivism Parasaurolophus.



And now, it's time to prepare for finals.