It turns out the porky paintings are the creation of Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, who has hired a small staff of local farmers and tattoo artists to raise about 20 sows and use them as canvases for skin art at his rustic China base, Art Farm. He has tattooed pigs off and on in Europe and Indonesia for a decade, but in booming China Delvoye sees a perfect environment for steady production. You can read more about Delvoye and his “enterprise” here.