The Rhinoceros
from Dürer to Stubbs . 1515-1799
This article talks about the first rhinoceros to reach people in Europe.
The Portuguese referred to it as "Ganda". The rhinoceros was a
novelty to most people because they had never seen it before. People started
talking about these animals and making drawings and paintings of them and those
things started spreading, so tons of different people were hearing about this
new animal and it just kind of ended up getting lost in translation.
People started making visual
representations of this animal just from the written descriptions and so all
these different variations of the rhinoceros came about. Basically what I got
from this reading is that communication is very important for an artist and the
way you communicate something in an artwork can have endless interpretations
from different people because we all view things differently.
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