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title: "Fantastic Bird and Insects (2024), Garcia, painting"
description: "Fantastic Bird and Insects (2024), Garcia. Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 50 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Fantastic Bird and Insects

![A long-necked bird with patterned plumage on a yellow ground, insects on the leaves below. Fantastic Bird and Insects, Garcia, 2024, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-077/garcia-fantastic-bird-and-insects-2024-acrylic-on-canvas-70x50cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-077-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

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.

- **Artist:** [Garcia](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2024
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 70 x 50 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Insects](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/insects/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** Garcia, lower left
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-077](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-077)
- **Article:** [Garcia, the Last Disciple](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/garcia-the-last-disciple/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «Garcia»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/garcia-signature-2024-jcc-077-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “Garcia”, in the lower left corner.*

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza, 2024
2.  João Cunha Collection

## How to credit

[Photographs free to reuse, with credit (CC BY 4.0)](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/#license)

Garcia, “Fantastic Bird and Insects” (2024). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-077

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-077/manifest.json)