Lioness with zebra

The scene has the vastness of the African savannah, the tall solitary tree with umbrella tufts, the leaves of the rich vegetation in which the scene is immersed. A herd of zebras runs away scared and, in the foreground, a lioness with her jaws wide open chases one of them curled up in an effort to escape her, with evident terror expressed in her eyes. In the sky, to balance the complex composition, a large bird with spread wings, almost a mythical phoenix, takes off. The animals in the foreground are deformed to accentuate the sense of drama, the speed and ferocity with which the feline's attack occurs. While the whole work is declined in horizontal bands, the two protagonists indicate a decisive oblique line from right to left that upsets the serenity of the planes and their passage towards the distant horizon. Only a few parts of the lioness are underlined with a dark line and the same goes for the attacked zebra. The whole picture, for the rest, is instead resolved with the use of colors combined with each other with extreme elegance and agile brush strokes. Precisely this linguistic use of the sign/color gives the scene an atmosphere of suspension and reality, making it almost a cinematographic sequence graduated on different levels.