https://chicodasilva.org/ Paintings by Chico da Silva and the Pirambu School, in gouache and acrylic, catalogued in the João Cunha Collection, Fortaleza, Brazil. Every work has an entry modelled on a catalogue raisonné and opens in high resolution. en João Cunha Collection Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/favicon-192.png https://chicodasilva.org/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/catalogue-raisonne/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/catalogue-raisonne/ At Pirambu, disciples painted and the master signed. What that asks of a catalogue raisonné of Chico da Silva, from the signature to the double attribution. Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-animals-2006-089/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-animals-2006-089/ Four small horizontal canvases are mounted edge to edge inside a single wooden box frame, two in the upper row and two in the lower. The wood is dark and stained, and its inner face is chamfered, so a shallow shadow falls across the outer edge of each canvas. The four panels touch, with no divider between them, and each carries one creature against a saturated ground. In the upper left panel a crested bird stands in profile facing right, its comb and wattle bright red, its eye ringed in orange. The wing is built from overlapping bands of green and blue that enclose three white eight-pointed stars on a purple field, and the tail sweeps down to the left as a long striped fan of rose, blue and green. Two large butterflies hover to either side of the head, their wings patterned with pale eyespots. The ground is yellow, crossed by a wide blue band, and the lower right is filled with rows of small green fan-shaped shrubs. The upper right panel holds a large fish facing left. Concentric rings of pink, orange, yellow and green circle its eye, and a row of spined fins rises above the head. The body divides between a pale dotted field and a dark panel scattered with pale spirals, and the tail opens into a striped fan of blue, rose and cream. Below it a second, smaller fish shows an open mouth full of triangular teeth. The ground moves from orange at the upper left through yellow to deep blue at the right, with a band of wine red across the bottom. In the lower left panel a snail takes the centre. Its shell is a spiral of ochre, brown and cream worked in fine dots, and its body is a long striped form in purple, blue and orange that ends in a raised head with two eye stalks and two thin antennae. Broad green leaves spread beneath it and three rosette flowers rise on curving stems above. The ground is yellow, with a blue band at the right and a field of rose and wine along the bottom. The lower right panel is filled by a marine creature whose shell is a mass of overlapping fan-shaped scales in rose, blue and cream, carrying four large blue eyespots in a row. Its dark head turns to the left with an open mouth and pale teeth, and a crest of orange spines runs along its back. It rests on a striped orange form. The ground is divided between red, pink, yellow and deep green. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:20:40 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-animals-2006-090/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-animals-2006-090/ Four small horizontal canvases are mounted edge to edge inside a single wooden box frame, two in the upper row and two in the lower. The wood is dark and stained, with a chamfered inner face that casts a shallow shadow onto the canvases. All four are painted on bare, unprimed canvas, and the warm off-white weave is left exposed as the ground of every scene. In the upper left panel a serpent-like creature arcs across the canvas, its body scaled in purple, wine and blue and covered with concentric rosettes, its long head raised to the upper right with an open red beak. A smaller bird flies above it, wings outstretched and patterned in brown and blue. Tufts of orange and green leaves fan out at the right, and rounded hills in brown, violet and green close the lower corner. The upper right panel holds a second creature, its head blue and yellow with an open mouth and a row of white teeth, its pink and purple body ringed with rosettes and curled around a large green plant with broad lobed leaves. A speckled bird perches at the left and another flies in at the upper right. Three insects with long pointed wings, dotted in orange and purple, rest on the plant and along the lower edge. Blades of orange and green foliage rise on both sides. In the lower left panel a large insect is seen from above, its wings filled with concentric undulating bands of green, blue, ochre and cream. The head is red and blue with two concentric eyes and a pair of curved horns, and long dotted legs reach out to either side. Purple flowers hang from a stem across the top and orange rosette flowers are scattered to the right and below. The lower right panel shows two birds on an ochre branch. The upper one has a red wing bearing yellow and orange stars, a dark speckled body, a blue neck and a crest that opens into a fan of fine plumes. The lower one turns its head to the right, its tail spreading as a fan of purple, blue and cream. Green fan-shaped shrubs grow at the foot of the branch. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:20:40 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fish-088/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fish-088/ A horizontal composition with three fish on a ground of short parallel strokes in ochre, cream, grey blue, red and green. The largest fish fills the sheet from left to right, head turned to the left, mouth open on a deep red interior. Its head is grey green and worked in a fine mesh of netted marks; the round eye sits in a yellow ring around a black band and a small red centre. Behind the head the body is built from long curved bands, each filled with rows of fine dashes in olive, white, pink, red and yellow, so the flank reads as a stack of ribbons following the curve of the belly. Along the back a row of tall triangular spines rises like leaves, each one red or green with a yellow shaft and fine ribs. Under the belly, blue panels stippled with yellow carry square patches, and below them the fins spread out: two long leaf-shaped fins striped green and yellow, a pair banded red and yellow, and a lower pair in red and blue drawn with herringbone veins. To the right the tail opens into a wide fan of fine threads in yellow, green, red and white, striped along its whole length. Above and to the right a second, smaller fish swims to the left, its body rose red shading into a blue and yellow stippled rear, with a green striped back fin and a yellow forked tail. At the lower left a third fish, smaller still, has a blue stippled head, a body banded in red, green and yellow, and red and blue fins drawn with the same herringbone strokes. An olive oval floats at the left, and dark grey smudges hang at the upper left. The signature is painted in yellow at the lower left, on the open ground. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:49:14 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/peacock-and-fantastic-bird-086/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/peacock-and-fantastic-bird-086/ A horizontal composition dominated by one large bird standing on a dark green mound along the bottom edge. Its body is a broad oval built from rows of overlapping scallops, laid like roof tiles, each one filled with fine curling lines in cream, pink, pale blue, red and green and closed by a beaded black and white edge. Above the body sits a great rounded wing worked in blue, black, grey and wine red, covered in dense coils and cloud-like scrolls; below it a second bank of feathers falls in long blue and black stripes. To the right the tail opens into a fan of six broad plumes in blue, red, cream, black and green, each with a white central shaft and a red or green eye-spot set at its base. Two pink legs, hatched with fine strokes, come down to black claws that grip the mound. From the body a long dark neck rises to the left, banded with rows of dots and studded with white six-pointed stars; it ends in a green and black head with one large round eye, an open black beak and a red tongue, crowned by a crest of five red leaf-shaped plumes veined in green. A second head appears at the far left, pale blue and speckled with white stars, with a red and black beak, a spiral eye and a fanned crest of cream and yellow blades. Two black hand-shaped claws reach out from the middle of the body. A small butterfly hovers at the left, its wings blue, green and black over a striped red body, above a cut green branch whose two sawn ends show as pale cream ovals. The ground is ochre, filled edge to edge with rows of short dashes in cream, white, pale blue and green that ripple across the sheet in wide bands. The signature is painted in black at the lower center, on the open ground. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:56:12 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/two-birds-and-an-insect-087/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/two-birds-and-an-insect-087/ A horizontal composition holding two birds and one insect on a tan ground. The larger bird fills the centre, its long body worked in dense rows of coloured dots in dark red, green, yellow and blue, laid over looping arabesques outlined in white. A green shoulder patch scattered with pale scrolls sits above it, and behind that a spread of long feathers opens to the right in red, green, black, yellow and blue, each plume drawn with a white central shaft and fine barbs. The small dark head carries one white almond eye and a very long tapering pink bill that points down to the left. Two pink legs, the nearer one thick and shaggy, end in black arrow-shaped toes. Below the bill, at the lower left, sits a bristled insect: an oval body divided into a red and yellow shell painted with white spirals and a green, black and pink dotted back, ringed all around with black bristles; its small green head has a round eye, two white antennae tipped with beads, and three pale legs. Above and to the left a second, smaller bird flies with its wings spread, the body wine red and covered in white scrolls, the head small and olive green, the tail a fan of white, red, blue and yellow plumes, one black foot tucked beneath. At the right stand two green stalks veined in yellow, with two yellow oval forms outlined in black floating beside them. The ground behind is filled with short curved dashes in cream, pale blue, green and red that swirl in wide currents across the sheet. The signature is painted in black at the lower center. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:56:12 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-bird-and-fledglings-085/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-bird-and-fledglings-085/ A horizontal painting almost entirely filled by one enormous bird. Its long neck rises at the left and arches over on itself in a deep hook, banded along its whole length with rows of dots in white, yellow and pale green over black, and studded at intervals with small round medallions of red and blue holding six-pointed stars. The small head at the end of the neck carries a single round eye and a heavy black beak curved like a crescent; a second crescent, in brick red, hangs below it as a wattle. The body is a great rounded mass on the right, worked entirely in beaded lines: coiling spirals in blue, violet and green across the upper half, giving way below to a maze of looping bands in red, ochre and cream, every line built from rows of white, yellow and red dots. A fan of fine hair-like plumes in green, white and pink spreads from the lower right. Two long purple legs, fringed with black barbs, reach down to grip a broad yellow and green form along the bottom edge, marked with two black claw-shaped strokes. Four much smaller birds occupy the lower left, each with a spray of black crest feathers, a spotted body in green, blue, yellow and red, and a splayed tail; one hovers in flight, the others perch. The ground behind is divided into blocks of fine hatched strokes in blue, red, yellow, green and brown, laid down like patches of woven cloth. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:49:52 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/primitive-naif-indigenous/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/primitive-naif-indigenous/ Eighty years of criticism on Chico da Silva, from Rubem Navarra in 1945 to the curators of the 2020s: every generation swapped the label, none settled it. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-fish-1973-084/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-fish-1973-084/ A horizontal painting on a plain off-white ground. A single large fish fills the center, seen in profile and facing left, its jaws open on a magenta mouth lined with white triangular teeth; a brick-red fin trails forward across the opening, fraying into thin red filaments. The head is pale blue-green, covered in fine short strokes, with one round white eye holding a dark spiral pupil. Behind it the body turns almost black and is worked over in dense stippled spirals in blue, lilac, orange, yellow and green, the pattern laid in dots rather than lines. Three discs interrupt it, each a black center inside rings of yellow and red, surrounded by radiating white and yellow lashes like small suns. Fins fan out above and below in fine striations of green, blue and red, and the forked tail sweeps to the upper and lower right, black and stippled with red and orange. Five clumps of green seaweed stand around the figure, four slender ones at the corners and a broad one at the right edge. A red cursive signature sits at the lower left with a date beneath it. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:26:33 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/women-and-fruit-2000-083/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/women-and-fruit-2000-083/ A tall vertical painting of three figures gathered close together behind a bowl of fruit. The ground behind them is brushed in vertical stripes of dusty pink, slate blue and wine red, like weathered boards; two broad arched shapes in flat crimson, outlined in white, rise across the upper part like windows or an awning. At the centre a figure with an ochre face, heavy-lidded eyes and short black curls wears an olive-green shirt with an open collar, one long arm reaching down across the group. To the left, half hidden by that arm, a second figure is seen in profile, pale-skinned with the same dark curls, in a pale blue dress with a zigzag hem. At the right a third figure sits with bare shoulders and long straight dark hair cut in a fringe, knees drawn up, her body modelled in pink and white. In front of her, round green fruits are stacked one above another, the topmost crowned by a wide fan of long leaves in green and yellow. At the bottom of the canvas a pale blue basin holds four large cashew fruits in orange and yellow, each with its grey kidney-shaped nut at the end. Bare legs in pink and white fall to either side of the basin, and a yellow bench shows at the lower right. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:16:15 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/claudionor-the-draughtsman/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/claudionor-the-draughtsman/ José Claudionor Nogueira (1945–2010), who drew the creatures of Chico da Silva's Pirambu School: the Mercantil São José panels and the 2010 memoir. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/maria-augusta-the-girl-who-signed/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/maria-augusta-the-girl-who-signed/ Maria Augusta do Carmo Moreira painted for Chico da Silva from 1965 and said so in public at fifteen: the 1969 newspapers and the canvas she signed in 1973. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/baba-the-first-disciple/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/baba-the-first-disciple/ Babá (Sebastião Lima da Silva), the first disciple of Chico da Silva in Pirambu: Bluhm's workshop, the 1966 scandal and a signature of his own from 1977. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/chica-da-silva-the-painters-daughter/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/chica-da-silva-the-painters-daughter/ Chica da Silva (Francisca da Silva), daughter of Chico da Silva and the only woman in the core of the Pirambu School: her own name on the canvas in 1976. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/ivan-de-assis-the-cinema-in-the-bestiary/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/ivan-de-assis-the-cinema-in-the-bestiary/ Ivan José de Assis, of the original core of the Pirambu School: he knew Chico da Silva before the fame and put winged animals and roosters in the repertoire. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-bird-and-insects-2024-077/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-bird-and-insects-2024-077/ A vertical painting on a saturated yellow ground. A large bird fills the centre, its blue neck arching down to the left in a deep curve dotted with pale spots and ending in a small head with a radiating eye and a long black and red beak that points at the ground. The body is built from overlapping panels of pattern: a red-orange shoulder covered in fine white dots and heart shapes, a rose and gold wing marked with leaf-shaped eyes, and a violet and blue underside. Long tail feathers stream to the lower right in fine red, green and blue striations. The bird stands on scaled legs that end in heavy black claws. A second, smaller bird perches at the upper right, its neck raised and its own tail fanning out. At the lower left, broad green and pink leaves carry a butterfly, two black ants and a striped caterpillar. Feathery fronds in green and red fill the remaining space. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:57 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/cockfight-2024-078/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/cockfight-2024-078/ A horizontal painting of two roosters confronting one another at the centre, beaks nearly touching. Both birds are built from panels of dense pattern: the left one carries a rose and violet breast marked with teardrop eyes, a green and blue wing worked in fine stripes and dotting, and an orange belly in coiled scrollwork; the right one is violet and blue above, with an orange flank of leaf-shaped eyes and a red tail edged in flower rosettes. Each has a scarlet comb, a small round eye ringed in green and white, and a fan of long spiky hackles radiating from the neck in red, green and yellow. Their pink legs are thrown forward and their black claws splay open in mid-strike, neither bird touching the ground. Wide tail feathers sweep off both edges of the canvas in fine multicoloured striations. The ground behind is brushed in loose diagonal strokes of pale yellow, blue, pink and green. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:57 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/dragon-fish-2024-079/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/dragon-fish-2024-079/ A horizontal painting on a broad yellow ground, with a band of blue and orange across the top and rippled water along the bottom edge. A large fish dominates the composition, its long body curving from the lower left to the upper right. The head, at the upper right, is blue-green and speckled, with a spiked crest of fine green and yellow rays, a concentric eye of orange and white, and long jaws opened on rows of black triangular teeth with a red forked tongue between them. The body runs through bands of pattern: a red flank strewn with white dotting and fan-shaped flowers, a violet panel of teardrops and hearts, and a blue underside. A tall dorsal fin of crimson and pink stripes rises at the centre, and broad fins in green and white striations spread below and behind. Two smaller fish flank it, one at the lower left and one at the right edge, each with striped fins and a small round eye. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:57 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/two-fish-2024-080/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/two-fish-2024-080/ A horizontal painting on a pale cream ground brushed with soft yellow, blue and pink. Two fish cross at the centre, both with their jaws wide open on rows of teeth. The left fish is the smaller: a red head with a ringed blue eye and a row of black spines along the snout, a green and olive body worked in dense dotting and scrollwork, and pink striped fins. The right fish is much larger and fills most of the canvas: its head carries a broad concentric eye of green, blue and orange rings, its jaws open on a pink mouth lined with black teeth, and its body is divided into panels of pattern, an orange band of leaf-shaped eyes, a violet field of hearts and teardrops, a crimson belly with flower rosettes, and a deep blue flank marked with pale drops. Tall fins in fine green, blue and pink striations spread above and below, and the tail sweeps off the right edge. Thin dark green weeds rise from the bottom corners. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:57 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/jaguar-fish-2024-081/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/jaguar-fish-2024-081/ A horizontal painting on a solid black ground. The main figure joins the head of a spotted cat to the body of a fish. The head, at the left, is orange covered in ringed rosettes, with tall striped ears, wide yellow eyes with black pupils, a golden speckled muzzle, a pink mouth and long violet whiskers. Behind it the body opens into overlapping fins: a pale blue panel marked with blue and pink teardrops, a crimson field of white dotting, a violet underside edged in a row of small beads, and a tall crest of magenta and orange stripes rising along the back. The tail sweeps up to the upper right in bands of orange, red and violet. A smaller fish swims at the lower left, blue-headed and striped, its fins fanning out in fine lines. Green fronds dotted with yellow and pink rise from the bottom edge and the right corner. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:57 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/entwined-serpents-2025-076/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/entwined-serpents-2025-076/ A horizontal painting on a pale cream ground streaked with soft yellow, pink and blue. Two long serpent bodies loop and cross at the centre, tying themselves into a loose knot. The left serpent is red and orange, its skin worked in dense white dotting and coiled scrollwork, with oval panels ringed in red; its head, at the upper left, is violet and blue with a sunburst eye of yellow and black, and its jaws gape wide on triangular white teeth and a forked red tongue. The right serpent is deep blue and teal, patterned with large oval medallions in blue, pink and gold; its head, at the upper right, is green and turquoise with the same radiating eye and open toothed jaws. Both tails taper to fine points near the lower edge. Sprays of narrow leaves in green, orange and red rise from the bottom corners. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:57 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-fish-2025-082/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-fish-2025-082/ A horizontal painting on a ground of loose diagonal strokes, orange and yellow above, pale blue and pink below. A single large creature fills the canvas. Its body is a mosaic of patterned panels: a brown disc at the upper right ringed with teardrops around a white and red eye, a pale blue field of blue hearts, a magenta panel with a four-petalled flower, an orange band of soft brushwork, and a patch of golden beads. Broad fins in green, blue and red striations spread from the top, the bottom and the left, and a tall crest of orange and black stripes rises along the left edge. At the right, jaws lined with black and pink teeth open on a dark spotted neck that extends outward and ends in a small red head with two round yellow eyes. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:57 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/caboclo-of-the-alto-tejo/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/caboclo-of-the-alto-tejo/ Chico da Silva's origins: a birth without records on the Alto Tejo in Acre, a childhood on the rivers, and the road to Fortaleza and the Pirambu School. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/murals-of-praia-formosa/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/murals-of-praia-formosa/ Fish, birds and ghost ships in charcoal on fishermen's walls in Fortaleza: how Chico da Silva's repertoire began before gouache and the Pirambu School. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/chabloz-and-the-discovery/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/chabloz-and-the-discovery/ How Jean-Pierre Chabloz found Chico da Silva's murals in Fortaleza in 1943 and carried his gouaches to Europe, years before the Pirambu School. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/pirambu-school/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/pirambu-school/ Inside Chico da Silva's Pirambu studio in Fortaleza: the five young painters of the Escola do Pirambu, their collective method, and the double attribution. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/venice-1966/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/venice-1966/ Chico da Silva's honourable mention at the 33rd Venice Biennale (1966), the press, and the imaginary journeys of the Pirambu School painter of Fortaleza. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/painting-factory/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/painting-factory/ How Chico da Silva's Fortaleza studio became a painting factory: mass production, forgeries and the disputed marks of the Pirambu School, 1966–1972. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/final-years/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/final-years/ The final years of Chico da Silva (1970–1985): illness and hospitals in Fortaleza, late paintings, the Pirambu School dispute, his death on 6 December 1985. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/instituto-oboe/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/instituto-oboe/ How the Instituto Cultural Oboé reunited Chico da Silva's disciples in Fortaleza and revived the Escola do Pirambu in 34 canvases from 2004 to 2011. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/garcia-the-last-disciple/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/garcia-the-last-disciple/ Garcia, last living disciple of Chico da Silva's Escola do Pirambu, retraces the school in two interviews recorded in Fortaleza, Ceará. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/legacy-and-rediscovery/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/legacy-and-rediscovery/ How Chico da Silva returned to view after 1985: retrospectives in São Paulo and Fortaleza, the Escola do Pirambu debate, and a new market. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-birds-and-butterfly-073/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fantastic-birds-and-butterfly-073/ A tall, fantastical bird dominates the composition, its long orange-and-white mottled neck curving down toward a small chick that reaches up toward its red beak. The bird's body is patterned in dense black-and-white dotwork, with a large circular, pinwheel-like wing structure spreading from its back in pale pink and cream tones with radiating spokes and a dark central eye. Orange clawed feet stand on a background of fine, multicolored hatched lines in orange, blue, green, and pink arranged in patchwork blocks, on aged, foxed paper. A striped butterfly with banded orange and green wings floats in the upper right. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:05:13 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/dragon-and-serpent-1973-075/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/dragon-and-serpent-1973-075/ A dragon with a purple, spike-crested head and an open jaw trailing red flame-like tendrils occupies the composition, its body scaled in red scallops that widen into a large circular tail densely patterned with orange medallions and dark dotwork. Brown clawed legs grip the golden-yellow ground. Above, a gnarled brown branch crosses the upper portion of the painting, where two striped snakes coil around the wood; one snake's head, rendered with a bird-like beak, reaches toward the branch tip. The upper background dissolves into soft, cloud-like brushwork in pale blue and pink. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:05:13 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/cockfight-1972-074/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/cockfight-1972-074/ Two roosters face each other in profile across a small flowering branch, set against a flat golden-yellow ground framed by a wide, wavy band of marbled color in pink, red, green and blue. The rooster at left has a dark red comb, a body patterned with dense teal-and-red dots and a sunburst medallion, and a long tail of rainbow stripes sweeping down. The rooster at right has a swirling dotted crest and body in red, gold and green tones, with a scalloped green-striped tail and dark banded legs. Both stand on slender clawed legs, feet splayed on the yellow ground. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:05:13 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/roosters-1998-072/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/roosters-1998-072/ A horizontal painting built on near-mirror symmetry: two almost identical birds face one another at center, beaks nearly touching. Each has a spiky dark crest, a round red eye, a body patterned in blue-gray with a mottled pink-and-red patch on the upper wing, and a belly marked with rows of leaf-like and oval motifs. Their long sweeping tail feathers fan outward to the left and right edges in fine multicolored striations of red, green and blue. Below, their red legs end in curved black talons that meet near the center over a low bank of pale-blue cloud forms. The upper corners hold soft lavender cloud shapes, and the central ground is a calm pale yellow, making the two confronting figures stand out cleanly. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/dragon-birds-and-insects-2004-043/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/dragon-birds-and-insects-2004-043/ A horizontal painting on a pale yellow ground that fills the whole field. Two large fantastical birds dominate the center: one on the left with a curved neck, a burst of fine orange and yellow plumes around its head, and a rounded body covered in concentric-circle eye-spots and scalloped scales in blue, green and rose; one on the right standing tall with a yellow crested head and a body of swirling purple and blue patterns. Their long tails sweep down into black-tipped feathers along the lower edge. Scattered around them are numerous small creatures: crested birds at the upper left, butterflies and spiky insects in the upper center, and crawling worm- and lizard-like forms across the lower center. The background carries faint feathery and dotted markings. Handwritten text sits at the lower left. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-snakes-and-insects-2005-040/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-snakes-and-insects-2005-040/ A horizontal painting on a golden-yellow ground patterned with faint wavy bands. On the left a large bird with a blue-and-green scaled breast and a striped multicolored body perches on a brown branch that runs across the lower portion. From its body rises a long pale neck topped by a fanged crocodilian head at the upper left. To the right, a long sinuous serpent with a red crested head winds across the center and curls into a large rounded shape filled with feathery red, blue and green markings in the upper right. Smaller crested bird-heads and a flying creature appear in the upper center and upper right. A green pine-like sprig grows from the branch at center, and small red blossoms dot the branch and lower corners. The lower edge carries bands of orange, brown and yellow stripes. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-fish-and-snake-2005-048/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-fish-and-snake-2005-048/ A horizontal painting with two large wading birds facing inward across a central pale-blue pool filled with swimming fish. The bird on the left has a patterned body of red dotted with circles and a blue-and-orange speckled wing, its long neck curving up to a small head at the top. The bird on the right is rounded with concentric pink and red banded markings, its neck rising to a crested head. A long orange and red serpent loops across the upper center between the two birds' heads, and another red-spotted serpent descends at the right edge. In the center a cluster of small orange and blue fish swim among reeds. Green feathery foliage rises along both lower corners, and the upper background is bright yellow shading to a paler pool below. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-2005-050/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-2005-050/ A horizontal painting with two large birds standing symmetrically on either side of a slender central tree that rises from a dark mound at the lower center. Each bird has a long curving neck, a tall reddish leg and a broad rounded body filled with dense mosaic-like patterning. The left bird's body is dominated by a red domed area scrolled with white lines above a patchwork of blue, pink and orange cells, and its plumage spills outward to the left edge. The right bird is patterned in green, blue and red with a long pointed beak. Both birds perch on pale oval stones streaked with feathery markings. Above, several smaller long-beaked birds and a twisting braided form fill the upper register against a bright yellow sky. Green pine-like fronds sprout near the base. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-and-snake-2005-056/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-and-snake-2005-056/ A horizontal painting built around two large symmetrical birds with long curving necks that meet at the center, their open beaks facing a tall upright form rising from the lower center. The left bird has a rounded body filled with flame-like orange and brown patterning and a green plumed tail; the right bird's body is a large pale oval banded with pink, green and red wavy stripes. Between them a green and red striped stalk rises vertically with thin orange limbs branching outward and a small spiky crown at the top. Small birds in red, blue and brown fly in each of the upper corners and along the right edge. The background is a pale cream wash with soft yellow at the lower corners. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/strange-original-reed-2005-058/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/strange-original-reed-2005-058/ A horizontal painting centered on a large fish or sea creature whose orange and blue body curves across the middle, its wide toothed mouth open at the left to engulf a stream of small colorful fish. The body is patterned with rows of round shell-like motifs in pastel colors and a spiral marks its head. A long orange tail with a flower-tipped plume sweeps up to the upper right. Across the top, a row of long-beaked birds with red, blue and orange wings dive toward the fish against a deep yellow sky. The lower half is a pale blue and white water field scattered with small red, green and yellow fish swimming toward the lower left. A signature in dark letters appears at the lower right. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-snake-and-owl-2005-064/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-snake-and-owl-2005-064/ A horizontal painting crowded with stylized birds and foliage against a luminous pale-yellow background streaked with wavy horizontal lines suggesting ground and sky. At center stands a tall white wading bird with a long sinuous neck doubling back, a slender orange beak and thin legs, its body finely outlined. Behind and around it twist serpentine necks ending in additional bird heads. In the upper left a round-eyed owl with tufted ears perches among the bare branches of a dark tree whose trunk runs down the left edge. At lower left a large fan-shaped bird displays plumage dotted with red and gray eye-spots over a clustered tail. On the right a peacock-like bird spreads a broad rounded tail patterned with blue and orange ocelli. In the upper right a leafy green tree fills the corner. The palette is dominated by golden yellow with accents of red, lavender, blue and gray throughout the densely patterned feathers. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fish-2006-039/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/fish-2006-039/ A horizontal painting filled edge to edge with flowing yellow and pale green water rendered in long parallel brushstrokes. At the center a single large fish swims toward the left, its rounded golden body speckled with small teardrop and heart shapes in orange, blue and red. The head at the left has a red gill area and a row of fine teeth, and the lower body shades into a band of layered blue-green and teal stripes. A long red-finned tail trails to the upper right, with red fins also along the back. In the lower left a much smaller orange fish swims, facing left. Faint handwritten text sits at the lower right edge. The overall palette is warm yellows and oranges with cool green and teal accents. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-and-insect-2006-041/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-and-insect-2006-041/ A horizontal painting set against a saturated red-orange ground. At center stands a large peacock-like bird facing right, its back covered in overlapping scalloped scales in blue, purple and rose, its wing rendered as rows of golden and green feathers. A tall feathery crest tops its small head, and it stands on long legs with splayed feet. To the left a very large plume-like fan of fine pale green and white fronds spreads outward like a giant feathered tail. At the right are two more crested birds: a small upright one perched mid-right and a flying one above it. Green foliage with slender leaves grows along the lower left and right. The whole image is built from delicate linear feather and leaf strokes over the red field. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-fish-and-snake-2006-044/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-fish-and-snake-2006-044/ A horizontal painting on a pale yellow ground marbled with faint wavy lines. At the center a large bird with a green head and red beak stands on a thick diagonal branch, its rounded body covered in orange honeycomb scales above and dark blue-green feathers below, with a striped fan tail at the right. Several smaller birds fly across the upper portion, two of them feeding a fledgling near the upper left; another bird perches on a branch at the upper right. A brown snake coils along the branch at the lower left, and a school of small triangular fish swims through pale blue water across the lower left and lower center. Bare brown branches frame the upper right and lower right. Handwritten text sits near the lower center. The palette mixes warm oranges and yellows with cool blues and greens. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/dragon-birds-fish-and-snake-2006-045/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/dragon-birds-fish-and-snake-2006-045/ A horizontal painting on a bright yellow ground. At the center stands a large dragon facing left, its rounded body covered in layered blue, green and purple scales, with a spiky red sunburst mane around its open fanged jaws at the left. Its tail extends to the right as a long pink-and-cream band marked with rows of red-ringed eye-spots, ending in a feathery plume in the upper right. The creature stands on clawed feet over a pale blue-green lower zone suggesting water or ground, where small fish swim in the lower center and lower right. Above, three small crested birds fly across the upper left and upper center. A slender brown tree with red marks rises along the right edge. Handwritten text sits at the lower right. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-insects-and-snake-2006-046/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-insects-and-snake-2006-046/ A horizontal painting on a vivid yellow ground crowded with stylized birds, insects and a serpent. On the left a large plumed bird perches on a brown branch, its body striped in blue, pink and orange and its long fan tail streaming downward in feathered bands. Sweeping across the upper center is an enormous patterned form, like a leaf or wing, filled with red, green and orange scrolling lines and a network of fine outlines. At the upper right a slender bird with a long beak and trailing tail feathers stands above a large green and turquoise oval covered in dotted scale patterns. A spotted serpent winds horizontally across the lower center along a thick brown branch, near scattered beetles and a pineapple-like insect. Smaller birds and winged insects float near the upper edges. The whole surface is densely worked with fine parallel hatching in red, orange, blue and green. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-and-insects-2006-047/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/birds-and-insects-2006-047/ A horizontal painting showing three large crested birds standing on the branches of one tree that rises from a brown mound at the lower center. Each bird has a long curving neck, a tufted crest and a broad rounded body patterned with dense markings. The bird on the left has a body of red and brown with white star or flower motifs and long trailing tail plumes. The central bird is heart-shaped in orange and red with a white feathered chest. The bird on the right is green and patterned, with a smaller bird tucked at its side. Slender green pine-like fronds branch out at left and right, and winged insects and a butterfly hover in the upper center. The background is washed in soft yellow grading to pale blue at the edges, with wavy striations along the lower border. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:31:38 GMT https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/bird-and-insects-2006-052/ https://chicodasilva.org/en/paintings/bird-and-insects-2006-052/ A horizontal painting on a pale blue and green ground showing a large crested bird at center-right with a long red-and-yellow beak and a rounded body banded in concentric stripes of green, gray and yellow, resembling a shell or armadillo. Behind and above it rises a round tree with a dense yellow-green canopy on a thin trunk. At the left a tall triangular pine-like tree grows upward, hung with small insects, a yellow winged figure and red beetles among its branches. Small bees and winged insects scatter across the upper area, and a turquoise circle and red curved line rest on the grassy lower ground. The foreground is filled with short green grass strokes, and the lower right is washed in yellow. 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