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Video: Father and son paint wild animals: lions, bears, wolves and other animals on the canvases of animal painters
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The world of wild nature is mysterious and unique, and we know about it only thanks to the painstaking work of its researchers. Father and son Montana animal artists, Daniel and Adam Smith, also contribute to the wild animals that live in the wild. Their art carries not only artistic value, but also raises topical environmental issues.
Thus, the famous contemporary American animal painter Daniel Smith, who lives in Bozeman, Montana, throughout his creative career has made a lot of efforts to attract the attention of the world community to environmental protection, in particular to the preservation of its unique diversity.
The artist is especially attracted by the world of wildlife and animals, in which the artist has been drawing his inspiration for more than twenty years. This is the vicinity of the South-West of Montana, where Daniel's house is located, located in the forest at the base of the mountain range and, where you can often meet moose, deer, mountain lions and bears, and the countries of Africa, where the animalist often travels for new experiences.
In recent years, the master's works are often exhibited, his canvases are kept in many museums, galleries and private collections, sold at auctions for a considerable price. Daniel Smith has consistently received numerous awards from various animal welfare societies, and has been recognized several times as the best "Artist of the Year" by environmental organizations in different countries.
The continuity of generations
Moreover, speaking about this master, I would like to say about the continuity of generations. His Son Adam also followed in the footsteps of his father - he became an artist of the animalistic genre. Raised in a family where love for the world of art about wildlife reigned, Adam from childhood did not think of himself as someone else by profession than as an artist of this unique genre: And family trips to nature or to the National Park were common in his free time.
In 2006, Adam took up a brush and realized that drawing is his passion. Adam's father says that he did not teach him to draw, that this gift is innate in him.
Daniel Smith's Wildlife World
Wildlife by Adam Smith
The theme of animals and birds in art is very common, and many artists strive to capture their images in their creations. Some reflect them realistically, as in living nature, others - primitively, as a wild fantasy suggests. So, Ukrainian artist Polina Raiko, she first picked up a brush at the age of 69, painted the walls of her own house with unprecedented images of birds and animals and became famous not only in Ukraine.
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