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To: Annette who wrote (37)11/4/2000 9:13:40 AM
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I would think that over time (maybe a long time) wildlife art will become a lot more popular.

I think an import concept in art of any time is that it transcends, and becomes substantially more than the sum of its materials.

When you say wildlife I think of the marvelous paintings of artists like:
Jean Jacques Rousseau (French 1861-1911)
Edward Hicks (American 1780-1849)
Martin Johnson Heade (American 1819-1904)

Paintings like The Peaceable Kingdom are reminiscent of a time gone by.

As the world's population continues to grow, as more animals become extinct, as wildlife diminishes, more people will want to remember and be motivated by what was.

For antecedents look to Thomas Hill, Thomas Moran (Congress sent painters to the wild west, to bring back pictures of what was there and these guys were so blown away with the beauty of Yosemite and the West in general (as well as the artists' mission to revere God's splendor and diminish "man's hand") that they embellished their imagery. Congress was overwhelmed and created the National Park System to protect the beauty revealed in the paintings) and most of all Frederic Remington (a sculptor and painter of Indians and Cowboys whose spirit and periodic profanity enthralled Americans then and still does today.

Their work is valuable today because it reminds us of an era an and attitude we identify with, yet don't find abundant in our society. The nostalgia factor.
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