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Writer's pictureHortencio Werneck

Rooster,

Updated: Jul 8

Rooster as a creative process in the visual arts and its poetic and abstract development.


Both the artist and his art absorb influence from the environment in which he lives and create his own repertoire, thus creatively feeding on his pictorial constructions. Your creations, therefore, will be subsidized by this circumspection.  The creative difference will most often occur in the process of representation, resulting in unpleasantness, delight or genius.

It is in this sense that I reevaluated the Rooster as a recurring theme in the visual arts of important artists, which resulted in the agenda of this article: in the 17th or 18th century, in the Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria, the Rooster is represented with marked realism, especially with regard to to the proportions and reproduction of feathers https://search.app.goo.gl/AYRHcip. However, the artist's central interest was to portray male strength and not merely reproduce the animal's natural forms. Horten Werneck, in the process of constructing his Rooster series, shows creative transitions in forty-one paintings on canvas from large to small formats, where the figure of the Rooster stars in the series, https://search.app.goo.gl/y6uuuNA the artist in question intended to revisit the phases of transition and decomposition of forms, from figuration to abstraction in the compositional space.  Picasso highlights the expression of the animal in his representations of Rooster, https://search.app.goo.gl/7kQbqKo. The Roosters of Aldemir Martins bring realism https://search.app.goo.gl/L3mQ9UW with the representation of vibrant and accentuated colors.

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