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Published by carruco on October 19, 2026
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  • Musicians and Dance
  • DateOctober 19, 2026

Artworks / Musicians and Dance

Young ballerina with her hair up, a white bodice and pale pink skirt, her head tilted against a fragmented ivory background.‹›
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Girlhood Lightness — original artwork in a room simulation‹›
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Girlhood Lightness — original artwork in a room simulation
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Girlhood Lightness — enlarged detail of the original photograph
The gesture
Girlhood Lightness — enlarged detail of the original photograph
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Approximate room simulation. Illustrative frame: 1 cm champagne face and 1 cm black gap. Details are enlargements of the original photograph.

Girlhood Lightness — original painting by Rui Carruço
Original artwork photograph1 / 4
Girlhood Lightness — original artwork in a room simulation
Room simulation · approximate scale2 / 4
Girlhood Lightness — enlarged detail of the original photograph
Detail from the original photograph3 / 4
Girlhood Lightness — enlarged detail of the original photograph
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RUI CARRUCO · 2025

Girlhood Lightness

Leveza da Infância

Mixed media on canvas125 × 90 cmHeight × width · canvas

In this piece, I sought to capture the lightness and innocence of childhood’s early artistic gestures. The ballerina girl is portrayed as a metaphor for a suspended world, where the body becomes poetry in motion. I aimed to express that delicacy through a semi-figurative and semi-abstract style, using impasto and vertical lines to add texture and visual tension to the composition.

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Rui Carruço

Visual Artist Rui Carruço

Rui Carruço is a Contemporary Visual Artist who combines an abstract and figurative style, with a strong presence of geometry and the use of impasto.

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