Fight for hunger

Complex work, strongly suggestive for the masterly execution, the richness of the savannah, the roaring lion and the lioness who prepares to attack or defend herself, with a particular twist of the head with respect to the body flattened on the ground, while the male seems to hold back in the run and point the paws to better prepare for the fight. The view from an elevated and frontal point of the scene also allows Ligabue to use two different perspectives, in reality slightly divergent, without giving the sense of internal contradictions or errors. The expressive elements that accentuate the drama of the scene are all slightly deformed so as not to deprive it of its realistic character. The sign is rich, modulated with extreme care and variety to suggest environments and details both of the beasts and of the background resolved with lighter strokes to the point of suggesting a different chromaticism with respect to the graphic concentration that outlines the two felines, which thus come to constitute a form that is almost closing in a circle, accentuating the expectation for the events and the drama, whose intensity is growing.