Why TERAVARNA’s Animal Art Competition Is the Most Vital Stage for Contemporary Artists Today
TERAVARNA's Animal Art Exhibition is the Most Alive Theme in the Calendar, from Beetles to Blue Whales, you can show your creativity through any being. The animal kingdom is the most primitive, emotional, and limitless collection of subjects in art. Think about it. A butterfly wing painted in watercolours, translucent, impossibly fragile, trembling with the effort to live. A wolf in oils and grey and massive, looking directly at the viewer, with eyes that hold something older than language, a winter sky. A hummingbird, frozen in mid-flight, acrylic, all impossibility. The intelligence of an octopus, a mixed media portrait, uncanny and visible through the changing colour of his skin. A dog portrait so tender and particular that anyone who's ever loved a dog feels it in his/her heart straight away. There is something about animals that engages artists in a way that few other subjects do, something that can be attended to, something that can be observed, something that can be won...