D. Fuas

The myth recounts that, while hunting on a foggy day, Dom Fuas was miraculously stopped by Our Lady of Nazaré at the edge of a precipice from which a deer was about to leap. In the painting, the artist subverts the cultural conventions surrounding this myth, depicting nothing beyond the deer itself, already in mid-fall, leaving behind it a misty background and, in front of it, the viewer. In this way, the painter emphasises the enigmatic side of the story, concealing the main figure - Dom Fuas - and giving prominence to the figure that embodies the devil. According to legend, the animal so deeply captivated the hunter that it could only have been possessed by a demon.

Departing from traditional representation, Pomar creates a painting valued above all for its plastic freshness and thematic originality. The representation of figurative enigmas is a constant in Júlio Pomar’s work. His paintings operate through protocols related to perception and representation, presenting a particular reality - sometimes fictionalised, fragmented, or even deformed. Perhaps these less conventional dimensions offer new ways of understanding such legends and, in doing so, rescue them from their historical obsolescence.