Pyrenean ibex Metal Print
by Moira Risen
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Pyrenean ibex metal print by Moira Risen. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
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The Pyrenean ibex – or bucardo was one of the four subspecies of the Spanish ibex or Iberian wild goat, a species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.... more
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The Pyrenean ibex – or bucardo was one of the four subspecies of the Spanish ibex or Iberian wild goat, a species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. In the Middle Ages they were abundant in the Pyrenees region, but their population decreased rapidly in the 19th and 20th centuries due to hunting pressure and competition for grazing territory with domestic ungulates like sheep, goat, cattle and horses. The last Pyrenean ibex, a female named Celia, was found dead on January 6, 2000. There are attempts to revive the subspecies through cloning, but with no real success so far.
A few years ago I started a wildlife conservation-environmental awareness poster project called ‘12images’ - you can find more details and information about it on my blog: http://www.12images.net/endangered-and-extinct-animals/12-images-for-environmental-awareness/.
I started with two 12 piece series featuring already extinct and critically endangered animals - these are the images of these two...
About Moira Risen
Collections featuring original artwork of illustrator and writer Moira Risen and carefully curated collections of digitally restored and cleaned illustrations from artists of the Golden Age, vintage botanical drawings, advertising posters from the early 1900's, traditional Chinese flower and bird paintings and some selected works of modernist painters. With licensing inquiries or any other questions please contact Moira personally via this email. You find more information about her and her creative projects on her personal website and on her blog. About Moira's artwork: 'I rather label my creations illustrations than classic fine art pieces because almost always there's a story (or at least a fragment of a story...) behind them -...
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