Chinoiserie Blue & White Chicken Art Print | Crum Art

Somebody let the rooster into the china cabinet, and he has decided he lives there now. Chinoiserie Chicken — Blue & White Rooster Art by Betsy Crum A white rooster stands at full attention in a sweep of porcelain blue — enormous tail feathers curling behind him like brushstrokes, one blue wing tucked neat, and a bright red comb that is the only thing in the whole scene refusing to be blue. At his feet sit a teapot and ginger jars, as though he wandered into the good china and appointed himself its guardian. Behind him, a pale gray-blue toile garden rolls out like the pattern off an heirloom platter. He runs with a whole barn of them: show-ring farm animals painted in the classical chinoiserie manner, county-fair livestock done up like grandmother's best dishes, made for houses where the show barn and the china cabinet share a wall. He is, without question, the showiest of the bunch — and he knows it. Where He'll Work in Your House The kitchen, first and forever — roosters have held that post for generations, and this one does it in delft blue instead of barnyard red. He's just as happy in a breakfast nook, a dining room with toile ambitions, or on a gallery wall where rooster wall art can stand among botanicals and the rest of the farm animals. He makes a sly housewarming present from the Texas gifts shelf, and he holds his own in western art company too — every stock show has a poultry barn. The chinoiserie rabbit keeps the garden end of the set gentle while he keeps the gate. Questions Why is his comb red when everything else is blue? Because a rooster can only be asked to tone it down so much. The red comb and wattles are the one place the painting lets him crow — everything else keeps politely to porcelain blue and white. What style of art is this? Chinoiserie — the old European romance with blue-and-white porcelain painting — crossed with toile and delft traditions. Farmhouse subject, formal treatment. Will he match my blue-and-white pieces? That's rather the point. He was painted standing next to his — ginger jars and a teapot right there in the picture — so he arrives pre-coordinated. And if the kitchen wall has room for two, he sets a fine table next to the croissant on a chinoiserie plate. Who painted him? Betsy Crum — the rooster, the ginger jars, and the one red comb she refused to tone down. Printed to order. Everything else Betsy has painted is here. He's the loudest thing on any farm, delivered here in the quietest palette in the house — all that crowing translated into porcelain blue. If he's going to hold a wall, give him company: the chinoiserie pig and the chinoiserie lamb round out the barn in the same blue and white.