Hi friends, I'll show you my first rhinoceros, painted on a 100 cm x 80 cm canvas with a mixed technique.
I chose to paint this animal because I like its wild, rough appearance, the roughness of its skin, its strength. To trace the design I used a charcoal stick; then I went over every single line with oil colors. The greatest difficulty when painting a rhinoceros is to be able to represent the roughness of its skin, all the folds where shadows slip. I emphasized the chiaroscuro contrasts by exasperating the lights and shadows to obtain a very realistic, three-dimensional result: the effect I wanted to achieve was to bring the animal out of the canvas. I chose a monochromatic black background because I wanted the rhino to be the only protagonist of the painting.
This work was exhibited in 2019 at the International Collective Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the Antonio Baldo Gallery in Milan, at the International Exhibition of Visual Art at the Cascina Grande Cultural Center in Rozzano (Mi) by the Historian and Art Critic Prof Giorgio Grasso, in 2018 at the "CAGED" bipersonal exhibition at the Bartoli Felter Foundation for Art in Cagliari.
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Look at the gallery with all my paintings: https://www.tizianasanna.com/en/animals
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, rhinoceros, tiger, 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.
Some information about the rhinoceros, an extraordinary mammal of which today only 5 species remain of the original 30.
Three species live in Asia: the Indian rhinoceros, the Javan rhinoceros and the Sumatran rhinoceros . A total of 3,000 rhinos, of which only 60 Javan rhinoceros : they are at risk of extinction.
Two species live in Africa: the black rhino and the white rhino, which survive mainly in protected areas and are both at risk of extinction.
The greatest threat to these magnificent animals is the horn trade.
The poachers act in an increasingly massive and violent way, they come from the ground or with helicopters and shoot with automatic weapons.
A horn is also paid 100 thousand dollars a kilo and this is the main cause of the almost extinction of these species.
The pulverized rhinoceros horn is used by traditional Chinese medicine to cure fever, epilepsy, malaria, poisonings and abscesses.
In recent years, thanks to WWF projects, the population of African rhinos has increased.
In the picture: Rhino hyperrealistic painting, realized on a canvas 100 cm x 80 cm with a mixed techinique by Tisha ( Tiziana Sanna )