Entendue - Charlotte Dumas landscapes Carol Christian Poell

Carol Christian Poell

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Entendue - Charlotte Dumas landscapes Carol Christian PoellWhen I was a child, my father would take me to the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam and wed sketch the elephants together. Observing, looking at animals with attention, was instilled in me from then on. Near the end of his life, when my dad was suffering from Alzheimers disease, we visited the elephants in Rotterdam one last time. In his pencil drawings from this outing, the elephants appear as abstractions, conveying something direct and genuine, often