It’s also a story, perhaps, of how a special gorilla used art to connect, to express something that was deep inside him. “The One and Only Ivan” is a story of great tenderness, resiliency, and relationship. I knew when he wanted to paint, Barr said, “I got to know his moods.” While he had many moments when he was inspired to create, there were times Ivan wasn’t interested. Joyce Barr, one of his last keepers, said Ivan had a certain pattern to his art work that only he understood. Ivan’s bright colorful abstracts were so treasured by the local community they were sold in the zoo’s gift shop and hung in Tacoma’s libraries and around the city. And soon, he created painting after painting. One day, he was introduced to paper and pots of colored paints and started drawing. Ivan especially loved having books read to him. He loved to play games, teased his zoo keepers, and was always full of surprises. But, in spite of these bleak circumstances, Ivan continued to delight children and families with his daily antics. Ivan lived in isolation in a 40-by-40 concrete enclosure for twenty-seven years in a shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington didn’t go outside for all this time, touch grass, nor see another gorilla.
IVAN THE GORILLA MOVIE
“The One and Only Ivan,” is a book and a movie about Ivan the Gorilla, a beloved Silverback Western Lowland gorilla, who captured the hearts of everyone who met him.
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