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SHARK!: A Preview of an Artistic Tribute To The Ancient Apex Predators of the Deep
SHARK!: A Preview of an Artistic Tribute To The Ancient Apex Predators of the Deep
Millennia before humans first appeared on this planet, sharks were cutting their way through Earth's seas. They come in all shapes and sizes and are found in every ocean in the world as well as in many rivers and lakes.
A major multimedia art exhibition, SHARK!, organized by the Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art and curated by acclaimed wildlife artist, author and environmentalist Richard Ellis, brings together art and science in documenting the fascination people have with these apex predators of the sea. In addition to drawings and paintings, the exhibition contains photos, sculptures, and video as well as a section devoted to the sensational impact of the 1975 film Jaws.
Ellis was good enough to give us these photos of pieces from the exhibition, which opens in May, as a sneak peak.
For more information on the exhibit, click here.
Stanley Meltzoff
LEMON SHARK AND RAY (1992)
18"x22"
This Meltzoff classic first ran in Field & Stream, and will now highlight the upcoming SHARK exhibit at the Ft. Lauderdale Art Museum SHARK!
Two iconic paintings of sharks doing battle with their undersea foes by Meltzoff will be the touchstones of SHARK! Meltzoff is widely viewed as the first and still foremost painter of game fish in their natural settings. Neither painting has been on public display since Meltzoff’s death six years ago.
Born in Brooklyn in 1917, his career included four years as a Stars and Stripes newspaper correspondent during WWII, postwar teaching at the prestigious Pratt Institute of Art in New York, and many decades as a highly successful commercial artist and illustrator.
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Millennia before humans first appeared on this planet, sharks were cutting their way through Earth's seas. They come in all shapes and sizes and are found in every ocean in the world as well as in many rivers and lakes.
A major multimedia art exhibition, SHARK!, organized by the Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art and curated by acclaimed wildlife artist, author and environmentalist Richard Ellis, brings together art and science in documenting the fascination people have with these apex predators of the sea. In addition to drawings and paintings, the exhibition contains photos, sculptures, and video as well as a section devoted to the sensational impact of the 1975 film Jaws.
Ellis was good enough to give us these photos of pieces from the exhibition as a sneak peak. SHARK! opens on May 13.
For more information on the exhibit, click here.
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I've been diving since 1966, and I've not encountered Great White, Mako, Tiger, Bull, Hammerhead or Whitetip...just an assortment of rays and skates, Blue shark, Nurse shark, and (here in the Northwest) our small Leopard sharks. Of those divers who have encountered sharks with a bad reputation, none of my colleagues have been attacked. They are ideally designed as predators, and I can understand that any mistakes made with a mouthful of teeth would be a painful and costly error to the swimmer who was sampled. I was a volunteer diver in an Aquarium four a while, and all marine life interests me. Sharks are sinuous poetry in motion, which helps me understand the folks who find venomous snakes fascinating, but I've never been threatened, never had a bad experience.
Ive done a shark feed in st maarten and in nassau . On the great barrier reef more scared of the cuddas than the white tip we saw . Hoping to do the cage dive with great whites off guadalupe next year , sharks take a bad rap We had 25 6' + grey reef sharks in the bahamas no cage no one got bit.
As an artist and arts advocate, as well as hunter, fisherman, fly fisherman and outdoorsman, I was very pleased to see this article 'SHARK!: A Preview of an Artistic Tribute To The Ancient Apex Predators of the Deep'. It was encouraging to see the range of artwork that was included and especially the contemporary work 'Corrida' by Pascal Lecocq, Robert Longo's 'Shark' and the work by Damien Hirst. It was interesting to see the use of the 'Dark Rainbow (Jaw)' instead of his 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' that is a great white submersed in a tank of formaldehyde. I didn't know if this was because the previous work mentioned is older or that the 'Dark Rainbow (Jaw)' was shown at The 2012 Armory Show, or another reason. Kudos to the Editors for exposing this outdoor crowd to a diverse group of art, and artists.
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I've been diving since 1966, and I've not encountered Great White, Mako, Tiger, Bull, Hammerhead or Whitetip...just an assortment of rays and skates, Blue shark, Nurse shark, and (here in the Northwest) our small Leopard sharks. Of those divers who have encountered sharks with a bad reputation, none of my colleagues have been attacked. They are ideally designed as predators, and I can understand that any mistakes made with a mouthful of teeth would be a painful and costly error to the swimmer who was sampled. I was a volunteer diver in an Aquarium four a while, and all marine life interests me. Sharks are sinuous poetry in motion, which helps me understand the folks who find venomous snakes fascinating, but I've never been threatened, never had a bad experience.
Ive done a shark feed in st maarten and in nassau . On the great barrier reef more scared of the cuddas than the white tip we saw . Hoping to do the cage dive with great whites off guadalupe next year , sharks take a bad rap We had 25 6' + grey reef sharks in the bahamas no cage no one got bit.
As an artist and arts advocate, as well as hunter, fisherman, fly fisherman and outdoorsman, I was very pleased to see this article 'SHARK!: A Preview of an Artistic Tribute To The Ancient Apex Predators of the Deep'. It was encouraging to see the range of artwork that was included and especially the contemporary work 'Corrida' by Pascal Lecocq, Robert Longo's 'Shark' and the work by Damien Hirst. It was interesting to see the use of the 'Dark Rainbow (Jaw)' instead of his 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' that is a great white submersed in a tank of formaldehyde. I didn't know if this was because the previous work mentioned is older or that the 'Dark Rainbow (Jaw)' was shown at The 2012 Armory Show, or another reason. Kudos to the Editors for exposing this outdoor crowd to a diverse group of art, and artists.
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