" DIK DIKS "
Robert Bateman

500 s/n Paper
17" x 25.375"
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"I have always been attracted to intimate scenes - a few square yards of seemingly
ordinary field, forest floor or scrubland, which are filled with variety and complexity
if you look carefully.  The dik-diks are small, the smallest of African antelopes,
only about twelve inches high.  You can see the scale of the painting by the
relative size of the elephant dung, a typical feature of dik-dik habitat, as are the
different grasses and bushes and the volcanic rock.  The dik-diks are attractive
animals to look at and to paint.  They resemble tremendously condensed
high-strung racehorses.  Every muscle shows, and their anatomy and bone
structure seem very tight and interlocked.  They are exceptionally nervous and
you usually see them either in a freeze position or else springing out of sight."
Robert Bateman

-1975 - 24" x 36" - acrylic painting - Dik Diks -

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