Week One: The Rooster’s Laugh - Max Ernst

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The Rooster’s Laugh
Max Ernst
First Panel: There appears to be a gypsy/ beggar woman trying to show some tricks for some money in the streets. She is accompanied by her rooster on top of a golden ball. Along with the rooster there are a basket of eggs. There appears to be a dead figure of a man in the back, below the staircase.

Second Panel: It seems as though this is a flashback to when the gypsy was younger. She appears to be asleep while a winged man along with the rooster look down upon her. They seem to be in a dark and mysterious room filled with magical secrets. As though this winged man is creating a ritual or casting a spell on to her.

Third Panel: The girl has now died and is being buried in their secret cult like chapel (upside down cross). Being buried by the rooster, now a large scale figure a dark rooster-man and a woman.

Fourth Panel: It seems as though as the dark rooster-man and the rooster are trying to hatch a plan to maybe make the girl come to life again, seen as though she is not buried anymore. She is not the only dead girl in this chamber.

Fifth Panel : There are two roosters in the bedroom chamber of the girl and it seems as though as the dark rooster-man entered her room only to see that this girl is not buried, but she is dead still, laying on the ground.

Sixth Panel: The dark rooster-man tries to leave the bedroom chambers as he sees the girls parents not to suspect a thing about their daughter, since they are mindlessly dancing.

Seventh Panel: The rooster appears to be holding a stick, or a staff like object as he talks to the girl's sisters about her death.

Eighth Panel: The two girls try to run away from the rooster figure but he seems to have found them, and has them under his clasps. It seems to be as though the rooster man is a demon.


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