1896
oil
canvas
From the collection of Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Dominant colour
Painting (Allegory) is a 1896 oil by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, a Realism work, depicting Painting, held at Pinacoteca de São Paulo.
This painting shows a nude woman standing in a landscape. She has long red hair and is holding a palette above her head with her right hand. Her left arm is raised, and she is holding a paintbrush in her left hand. The woman is depicted in a natural setting, with trees and hills visible behind her. The palette she is holding is colorful, with various shades of red, yellow, blue, and green. The painting is an example of the artist's use of chiaroscuro, a technique that uses strong contrasts between light and dark to create a sense of volume and depth. You can learn more about this technique by looking up chiaroscuro.
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (8 May 1850 – 13 November 1899) was a Brazilian artist and designer; one of the first there to paint in the Realistic tradition of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet.
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