Spanish Naïf School (c. 1970) - The Witches

- Oil on board. Hand-signed. Some damage.

- In the darkest corner of popular imagination there lives a myth that art has fed for centuries: that of the woman as the “invariant perverso” (perverse constant), a direct channel to the forbidden, the irrational, and the diabolic. The described scene, with its atmosphere of clandestine liturgy, functions as a visual catalog of the historical fears that crystallized in the figure of the witch, unfolding this supposed perversity in two inseparable directions: flesh and sacrilege. On one hand, the naked woman offering a dead bird to the diaboloical feline — symbol of lust and night — embodies renunciation of civilized morality to parley with the wild; a nudity that is not innocence, but strip, where the female body becomes the weak link that yields to the beast’s blind pulsing in exchange for forbidden power.

On the other hand, the scene seals its heretical character through the inversion of the sacred, represented by the figure holding a chalice in flames. This object serves as the perfect antithesis of liturgical communion: if the institutional chalice contains life and redemption, the witch’s overflows with a destructive fire that symbolizes chaos and spiritual dissidence. This archetype is not accidental; historically placing women in complicity with the demonic, the collective imagination justified the need to watch, contain, and punish their autonomy. The painting thus becomes a reminder of that entrenched cultural suspicion: the idea that a woman, escaping the control of home or altar, instantly becomes the priestess of the abyss.

- Dimensions of the image without frame: 73 x 92 cm / 83 x 101 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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