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This vibrant contemporary painting features a striking blue peacock rendered against a rich red background. The bird is depicted with an elaborate floral and organic headdress or crown, creating a fantastical fusion of flora and fauna. The bold color contrast and decorative embellishments demonstrate the artist's playful approach to contemporary figurative painting.
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- Acrylic on canvas
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Walton Ford
American · b. 1960
Ford creates large scale figurative paintings of exotic birds and animals with elaborate decorative detail and bold dramatic color contrasts, closely mirroring the fantastical ornamental treatment of fauna seen in this peacock painting.
Hunt Slonem
American · b. 1951
Slonem repeatedly paints tropical and exotic birds including peacocks against richly saturated single color backgrounds with expressive gestural brushwork, making his work exceptionally close in subject matter, palette and decorative sensibility to this piece.
Yago Hortal
Spanish · b. 1983
Hortal combines vibrant acrylic color fields with organic floral and lush decorative elements in a contemporary figurative style that shares the same joyful boldness, color intensity and fusion of natural forms found in this peacock painting.
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