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| Jesus Olivan. "Alentejo cerca de Juromenha". 2011. Oil on canvas 130 x 97 cm. |
I travel to Alentejo, Portugal, several times by year.
It is a region sparsely populated with a wonderful landscape. Olive trees, cork oaks, vineyards and fields of wheat or corn, pasture with cows, sheep or horses are for the visitor as a land of milk and honey.
Alentejo can be very hard for living in. I wanted to show the difficulties of living there in a day without sunshine. As I painted I used to read Saramago's novel "levantado do chao". Some of the elements, the absence of people, the gates of the large estates are shown in the picture.
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