Call of the Wild:: 2004-2005 VanGo! Exhibition - Featuring animals in art

The 2004-2005 VanGo! exhibition is Call of the Wild: Animals in Art. This exhibition explores a variety of artists depicting animals in a variety of media. The work will include photography, paintings and sculpture. Under Pennsylvania's academic standards for science and technology this exhibition falls under Biological Sciences with the study of living forms, structure and function, inheritance and evolution.

Animals were the first subjects to be portrayed in the history of art. The first artists were hunters and their inspiration: animals. Painted in cave walls, these animals were captured in twisted perspective to reveal the most descriptive angles. Animals evolved in art from cave paintings to ornate funerary sculptures, fresco paintings in palaces, and great guardians of cities, tombs and temples.

Animals have appeared in the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Edgar Degas, Frida Kahlo, and Andy Warhol. The Call of the Wild exhibition displays a group of artists that are working today, using animals for inspiration. It explores animals in the air, sea and land, seen in their natural habitat and abstracted as artistic muse. Concepts associated with the exhibit will be animals used in aboriginal cultures and how we interact with animals in our homes and in Pennsylvania. Students will leam about different types of animals and their habitats; how artists portray them with color and texture and through painting and sculpture.

Gallery

A Simple Relationship Marc Dennis	Pop Shop V Keith Haring	Dependence George Rodrigue	Piglet Leo Sewell
Unending Motion II Cindy Wrobel	Red-Kneed Tarantula Biruta Hansen	Boing Susan Read Cronin	Muscovy Duck Paul Plante
Beaver Pond Canadas Bob Sopchick	Valentine Turtle George Papashvily	Very Complicated Person Dirk Westphal	Giraffes Nancy Strailey
Horse of a Different Color Eleanor Schimmel	Untitled William Wegman	American Kestrel Ned Smith	Sand Boa Anne Heimann

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