Who doesn’t want our animals happy and our art provocative, and why on earth can’t we have both? In an exceedingly real sense, animals have always been symbols and metaphors first and lives, living beings, second. Very likely since people have been people, animals have populated our folk tales and fables, epic poems and didactic stories as things that, by being them, make us us. As John Berger put it in his famous essay “Why Look at Animals?”, “The first subject matter for painting was animal. Troy Sherman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Source: Daily Sun October 16, 2017 02:37 UTC