Joachim Schmeisser German, 1958
Giraffe's Eye, 2020
Série: Hand Painted Photographs
Archival pigment Print on Hahnemühle Laid paper, Ink, Gold Pigments
100 x 100 cm
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in
text handwritten by the artist, unique print
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Text: 'A book about Giraffe,“ by Lynn Sherr (Excerpt from Tall Blondes) 'Finally there are the eyes, which give the giraffe superb vision and give us the most exquisite pleasure....
Text: "A book about Giraffe,“ by Lynn Sherr (Excerpt from Tall Blondes)
"Finally there are the eyes, which give the giraffe superb vision and give us the most exquisite pleasure. It is said that giraffes can spot a person more than a mile away, and one Africa hand claimed that giraffes on sentry duty would climb an anthill for the most unobstructed view. In 1959 a German scientist proved that giraffes can be distinguish colors, picking out food from containers that were red, orange, green and violet.But it is the aesthetic of the eye that appeals to us above all - its „bewitching softness“, in the words of one converted hunter. I have gotten lost in a giraffe eye, too, mesmerized by the high gloss and sympathetic expression beneath those long, straight lashes.
"There is nothing to compare with its beauty throughout the animal creation,“ wrote Sir Samuel Baker, who got to know giraffes after helping discover the source of the Nile. I am tall, I am big I am who you like to see I am like a tree of forestI have four branches that touch the ground I don‘t eat grass from the ground as others do. A glimpse of the grace of beauty Quote from Karen Blixen: A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage."
"Finally there are the eyes, which give the giraffe superb vision and give us the most exquisite pleasure. It is said that giraffes can spot a person more than a mile away, and one Africa hand claimed that giraffes on sentry duty would climb an anthill for the most unobstructed view. In 1959 a German scientist proved that giraffes can be distinguish colors, picking out food from containers that were red, orange, green and violet.But it is the aesthetic of the eye that appeals to us above all - its „bewitching softness“, in the words of one converted hunter. I have gotten lost in a giraffe eye, too, mesmerized by the high gloss and sympathetic expression beneath those long, straight lashes.
"There is nothing to compare with its beauty throughout the animal creation,“ wrote Sir Samuel Baker, who got to know giraffes after helping discover the source of the Nile. I am tall, I am big I am who you like to see I am like a tree of forestI have four branches that touch the ground I don‘t eat grass from the ground as others do. A glimpse of the grace of beauty Quote from Karen Blixen: A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage."