Description
Miguel Hernández Bastos employs a unique technique in his artworks, using pencil, charcoal, acrylic paint, and the unconventional medium of smoke from an oil lamp, which burns onto the canvas like pigment. This distinctive approach allows him to explore themes of metamorphosis and the fleeting essence of the human form, while also incorporating historical symbolism associated with the candle in Renaissance portraiture.
Cuerpos Sutiles is a luminous and fluid painting by Hernández Bastos, in which smoke and oil combine to form layered, semi-transparent figures that shimmer with tones of violet, amber, and green. The bodies appear to shift and stretch across the canvas, producing a sense of motion that is bodily and spectral.
Hernández Bastos often integrates mechanical elements into his compositions, such as this one, as his figures seem to float and merge across the canvas, imbuing his works with a futuristic quality. Despite this, he balances historical symbolism with themes of eroticism, tenderness, and isolation, creating a multi-dimensional narrative.
Framing not included.
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