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During May we will be commented some sheep of Sheep's Parade.

Today the first one:

Edward Picot's Sheep

…Art necessarily expresses the social conflict (it cannot be avoid, it is impossible… )

[Clemente Padin]

Edward Picot's sheep, essentially political and very intelligent, shows this clearly. When , we browser http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/ ( page down, click - Eduward Picot), we soon observe a white sheep peaceful flock, which eats the grass of a small elevation near a mirror of water (the sea?), in fact they are not real sheep but sheep painted by the Pre-Rafaelita English painter William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910); who sought to revitalize the art of his time emphasizing the detailed observation of the natural world in an
almost-religious devotion regarding the truth. We also hear a beautiful and very calm musical composition by Erik Satie (1866 - 1925). It reigns a complete peace in that landscape… Sudden, we move the the mouse and…, the first fright: a very well known black sheep (here the meaning of black sheep is the traditional one) appears on two different times - in the summit of the glory and in the bottom of the shaft . When we move the mouse, other surprises can appear: the scapegoat or some scenes of the current world . We can not forget that the myth of the scapegoat today is related to extremists ideologies. When I accessed the work for the
first time, the last "sheep" which appeared was the "the wolf in sheep's clothing." - who ????… Perfect! So that the Isabel Saij's "loup-mouton"(wolf-sheep / http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep, click on Isabel saij [2]) has a name now…

I do not have idea of the reason why Edward Picot chose "William Holman
Hunt" to illustrate his work, but it is curious that the search of the truth is the same in Hunt as in Picot. A coincidence? If Hunt searched the natural world's truth, Picot searchs the political world's truth,… Picot's search is much more arduous.

This Edward Picot's "flock" excites me, through a simple game of images and through a music that enchants and that does not prepare the spectator for what is going to happen - a Picot's excellent discovery - a narrative which can be understood by everybody was built and it shows very well what politics and most of our politicians are - unfortunately!

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Regina Celia Pinto

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