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Photo: Phil Hatten
Rhinos
Photo: Phil Hatten

Rhinos

Artist (born 1980)
Date2014
MediumCarbon pencil on paper
Dimensions96 × 72 in. (243.8 × 182.9 cm)
Framed: 98 1/4 in. × 76 1/2 in. × 2 in.
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineCourtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
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Label TextImbued with a sense of whimsy, Adonna Khare’s large drawings of animals exhibiting human behaviors include subtle, but plentiful environmental statements. Her technical skill invites us in for a closer look and evokes an emotional response. Through her work, she encourages us to reexamine our relationship to animals. Here, Khare includes pierced and peeling rhinoceros horns to criticize their sale, which has decimated the animal’s populations, rendering many rhinoceros species critically endangered.

Impregnados de una suerte de capricho, los grandes dibujos de animales que manifiestan conductas humanas, de Adonna Khare, incluyen sutiles, pero abundantes declaraciones medioambientales. Su destreza técnica nos invita a una mirada más detenida y provoca una respuesta emocional. A través de su obra, nos alienta a volver a examinar nuestra relación con los animales. En esta obra, Adonna Khare incluye cuernos de rinoceronte perforados y descamados para criticar su venta, que ha diezmado las poblaciones de este animal, haciendo que muchas especies de rinocerontes se encuentren en grave peligro de extinción.
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