Article: VITALIZING WILDLIFE ART MODERN PAINTERS ARE BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO AN ANCIENT FORM

From drawings of game animals on cavemen's walls 30,000 years ago to the familiar pictures of ducks and antlered deer found in the modern den, wildlife art has been slow to change. But, now, man's oldest artistic genre seems to be speeding up its evolution.

Yes, there are still those familiar paintings of men in hunting caps with rifles aimed skyward and labrador retrievers with dead ducks in their mouths.

But a new generation of talented and environmentally concerned artists is expanding this hide-bound school with less conventional subjects ranging from aardvarks to zebras -- in other words, animals existing without any obvious relationship to man and his passions. Instead of ...

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