Margot Cormier Splane Internationally Exhibited Artist

This Place Gives Me The Creeps, We're Out of Here

2002 26.5 x 51.5" ~ 58.5 x 113.5 cm Acrylic Painting

I love the freedom of the cave paintings, how with a few simple strokes a powerful image can be evoked. The oldest known art works on earth were recently (1994), discovery in the Chauvet Cave in France. While most caves depict almost exclusively prey animals, the Chauvet Cave has many dangerous predators roaming it's walls, lions and bears in particular abound.

I imagined a rhino, a huge powerful and generally not pleasant tempered animal. It is a herbivore (plant eater), but being one of the largest land animal on earth, hardly what you would think of as a prey animal. Put a calf beside it and suddenly it, or more precisely its calf, is a prey animal. The perspective from which it views the world, is suddenly altered.

This painting has paritcipated in an International Exhibit based in;

Crete, Greece, 2002

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