New exhibition at San Antonio's Briscoe Museum centered around wildlife paintings

The"Survival of the Fittest" exhibition will showcase works by four European masters of known for traveling to depict their subjects in natural surroundings.San Antonio’s Briscoe Western Art Museum next month will become the latest host of the touring exhibition"Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four."

The paintings featured in the show are all by four European masters of wildlife painting: Richard Friese, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Bruno Lilijefors and Carl Rungius. The exhibition organizers have dubbed the painters the"Big Four,” a moniker intended to reference the “big five” animals safari-goers hope to see: lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino. also changed how people from Western cultures understood their relationship with wildlife.

Realism was somewhat of a new goal for these painters but impressionist elements put the animal subjects into focus.

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