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  • Country: United States
  • Category: Painting
  • Technique: Acrylic
  • Medium: Canvas
  • Theme: Figure Painting
  • Measurements: 7.99 x 10.00 in
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  • Tags: girl, birds, portrait, painting, drawing, renaissance

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Artwork description

Four Blue Birds
Acrylic on Canvas
8” x 10”
Signed on the back
Certificate of authenticity available
Condition: Excellent

Four Blue Birds unfolds like a staged memory suspended between history and imagination, where elegance and playfulness share the same breath. At the center of the composition stands a young woman dressed in an ornate gown reminiscent of 17th–18th century fashion—an echo of aristocratic portraiture softened by a dreamlike sensibility. Her silhouette is refined, yet slightly exaggerated by design, as if lifted from a theatrical archive of forgotten elegance.
Her glasses, oversized in relation to her face, introduce a subtle distortion—modern, curious, almost humorous—framing her gaze and transforming her expression into something contemplative and slightly surreal. Through them, she observes a world that feels both distant and intimate at once.
Behind her, four blue birds animate the garden, their presence light and rhythmic, as though they are not simply flying but playing within the air itself. The garden dissolves into a patterned surface, resembling wallpaper—ornamental and gently artificial—blurring the line between nature and decoration.
In Four Blue Birds, reality becomes composition and composition becomes illusion. The figure stands between centuries, between species, between stillness and movement, as if the entire scene were a decorative memory unfolding inside a frame of quiet wonder.

Artist information

Carlos Gamez de Francisco (b.1987, Holguin, Cuba) lives and works in Prospect,KY. He has received numerous awards including the Fine Art Photographer of theYear at Moscow International Photo Awards, the Honorable Mention atInternational Color Awards and Tokio International Photo Awards; the MuseumGuild Purchase Award at Evansville Museum; the SAIC Distinguished Scholarshipat The Art Institute of Chicago; the Key to the City of Louisville by Mayor GregFischer; and the “Dreammakers” Artist in Residence at Muhammad Ali Center. Hehas had solo shows at 21c Museum, Bentonville, AR; Kenise Barnes Fine Art,Larchmont, NY, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami, FL; Muhammad AliMuseum, Louisville, KY; and the Colonial Museum of Fine Arts, Havana. Gamez deFrancisco is represented in the collections of the 21c Museum, Louisville, KY; theFashion Resource Center at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; theCubaocho Museum & Performing Arts Center, Miami, FL; and the Louisville MetroHall, Louisville, KY.

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