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"The Conqueror"
26 x 14"
Acrylic on Cradled Birch, 2011
Buff Silkie Bantam Cock
$4,800
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On a trip to Bear World, a drive through animal park in Idaho a few years back, I took thousands of photographs of black bears and grizzlies, not a one of which has ever inspired a painting. But it wasn’t a wasted trip, thanks to Bear World’s Petting Zoo, which has now yielded two paintings of chickens, the first being “Mr. Chattersly’s Declaration” from 2008, the second being this one. I absolutely fell in love with this Buff Silkie Bantam Cock, who despite his diminutive size and mid-molt rumpled appearance, strutted about the yard crowing his little head off with the confidence of a feathered General Custer ready to take on the entire Sioux Nation. I chose to showcase him in as stark and non-objective an environment as possible , using hard lines, squares, the suggestion of a chain link fence, and plenty of stark white to suggest his confinement. Yet he fixes his beady eyes past the upsweeping abstract line, which is intended to suggest an unscalabel wall, with the defiance of an indominable spirit.
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