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Known for creating photorealistic animal portraits set against stark white backgrounds, self-taught Italian painter Ester Curini has explained that isolating the endangered species on a blank canvas allows her to concentrate on a subject’s essential characteristics, and, at the same time, on what is essential to her as an artist. This allows the animal to be in the main role rather than a supporting one. Curni does this to give them a strong and powerful voice.
Curini states, "Animals need that voice, now more than ever, because they are so often mistreated. The annihilation of …