This is my Gorilla painted on a canvas 100 cm x 80 cm with acrylic colors. The subject I chose reminds me of a gorilla that I saw when I was a child in a zoo that looked at me very sad look like me and asked me to free it.
All my paintings are entirely handmade and are unique and original pieces.
My artworks, of hyperrealistic and with a photographic style, have got as main subjects animals, mostly exotic ones such as elephants, giraffes or leopards, or typical of the Sardinian territory. I manage to highlight the details, meticulously cared for, and to focus attention on the subject, which is the only character of the work: the background, in fact, is absent, it is mostly monochrome and it emphasizes the focus on the animal, abstracting and extracting it from a real space.
My style is defined as pop - hyperrealism because the subjects are painted following a detailed technique, but their position in an unreal space gives the artworks features that are more typical of pop art, so hyperrealism and a graphic style melt. I use different techniques according to the subject and the effects I want to obtein.
Look at the gallery with all my paintings: https://www.tizianasanna.com/en/animals
Some information about the oriental gorilla: the largest existing primate is at risk of extinction.
The oriental gorilla lives mainly in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Rwanda. There are two subspecies: the mountain gorilla, of which there are about 800 specimens, and the gorilla Grauer, of which there are about 3800 specimens.
The most serious threat to these beautiful animals is the poachers hunting for their meat. The trade in "bushmeat" (meat of wild animals), which now occurs throughout western and central Africa, is the most serious threat to these specimens: gorilla, chimpanzee, antelope and many other animals are in fact, a sought-after food in the illegal markets of many countries, and is sold at dizzying prices.
Added to this is the wild deforestation that annually destroys 700,000 hectares of forest in the Congo basin. The population of these specimens in recent years has been decimated by 75% and today only survives in two areas between the Bwindi National Park and the Virunga National Park, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but according to the Nations it could disappear within 10 years.
Another serious threat is the oil drilling that threatens the Virunga National Park, the area located between Congo, Uganda and Rwanda, where they live: some large oil factories have already bought oil exploration concessions in about '85% of the Virunga Park.