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CARL BRENDERS |
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The
artistic visions of Carl Brenders reflect his respect for nature.
His precise and lively |
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paintings
capture the extreme realism of the birds, mammals and habitats he
depicts. Brenders |
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paints
every detail of his wildlife images - feathers, hair, leaves or pine
thorns - until, he says, |
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"they
get into my skin." Brenders was born near Antwerp, Belgium, and
has drawn since |
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childhood.
He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp and later at Berchem. |
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has produced wildlife illustrations for a series of books entitled
The Secret Life of |
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Animals.
His artwork is regularly exhibited in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art |
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Museum's prestigious "Birds in Art" and "Wildlife in
Art" shows. The wildlife images of Brenders' art are first created
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pencil sketches; from these sketches his mixed media paintings of
watercolor and gouache are completed with a |
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technique he has developed during the last 25 years. His paintings,
which encompass every intricacy of nature, devote |
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equal attention to the detail of the wildlife subject and its habitat
as well as to the mood created by the light. |
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Brenders' art enjoys international acclaim. He is widely collected
in North America, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, |
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Holland, Argentina and in his native Belgium. Brenders combines his
dreams, his senses, his imagination and his strict |
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attention to anatomical perfection to make his paintings. He says,
"Nature is already beautiful, already perfect. That is why
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paint the way I do with so much detail and so much realism - I want
to capture that perfection." |
