Artworks and Artists
Winds of Change
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Winds of Change,
c. 1983-1984
Pudlat, Pudlo
coloured pencil and black felt pen on wove paper
57 x 76.5 cm

Composition:

Pudlo immediately accepted and used the plane in his art, made possible the discovery of the world from an entirely new perspective. Musk-ox are rarely found on Baffin Island; he had seen them for the first time from the air, while flying home from a hospital stay in the South. This explains why his drawing of the animal is inaccurate, since certain details would have escaped him from a distance. We can observe Pudlo's skill with the pencil in the many lines that follow the curves of the beast to emphasize its mass and heaviness of movement.