Colour In: Zebra and Parachute

Download a colouring-in page of Zebra and Parachute from Tate's collection

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Colouring sheet of Christopher Woods's Zebra and Parachute
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A zebra stands in a dusty yard before low white modernist buildings and distant chimneys, while a tiny figure descends beneath an orange and white parachute in a pale blue sky

Christopher Wood
Zebra and Parachute (1930)
Tate

A zebra, a parachute and a building – that's a strange combination of things to paint! Christopher Wood was friends with the surrealists. Surrealist artists and poets often put unexpected things together in their art to create weird dreamlike atmospheres. What words would you use to describe this picture?

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