Albrecht Durer, Young Hare
Vincent Van Gogh, Field with Two Rabbits
Drawing from original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Lewis Carroll
John Tenniel, White Rabbit
Illustration by Arthur Rackham
Salvador Dalí, Down the Rabbit Hole
Norman Rockwell
According to Arthur Paul, the designer of the playboy logo, he chose the rabbit because of its “humorous sexual connotation” and also because the representation was “frisky and playful”. The playboy logo is undoubtedly mischievous in its nature.
Robert Crumb’s drawing
Andy Warhol
Terence Koh, Boy by the Sea (2008)
Jeff Koons
Illustration by Han Hoogerbrugge
Chuck Jones and Bugs Bunny
Rabbits (David Lynch,2002)
John Updike may have chosen the name Rabbit for his character for its echo of Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt (1922). Previously to Rabbit, Run (1961),Updike had written a short story entitled Ace In The Hole, and to a lesser extent a poem, Ex-Basketball Player, with similar themes to this series.
“It had a bed, a table, and a chair. The table had a lamp on it, a lamp that had never stopped burning in anticipation of her return, and on the lamp perched a butterfly with two large eyes painted on its widespread wings. Tereza knew she was at her goal. She lay down on the bed and pressed the rabbit to her face.”
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis, 1989). The Wolf and other characters were based on Tex Avery’s Red Hot Ridding Hood.
The animation of Cool World (Ralph Bakshi, 1992) was strongly influenced by the house styles of Fleischer Studios and Terrytoons. Bakshi had originally intended to cast Drew Barrymore instead Kim Bassinger in the film’s leading role.
The Genealogy of Style 
