Karel - Visión Amordazada: La Venda Roja

Artwork by the artist Carel created using the oil on high-quality professional canvas technique.
Dimension of 50 x 70 cm of painting.
Original edition.
Shipping will be carried out through United Parcel Service (UPS) for Spain and Europe, and through FedEx for the rest of the world.
The work will be rolled and protected with several layers of packing, bubble wrap, and placed in a sturdy tube.
Once the work is paid, three days are required for the packing process and delivery to the shipping company.
The piece will reach you within ten days, depending on the destination country.

This powerful work, executed with the oil on canvas technique, is framed within a high-contrast figurative realism, often associated with dramatic-focused hyperrealism. The painting presents a mid-shot portrait of a woman, whose skin is rendered in an austere and sophisticated grayscale scale that highlights mastery of the blending technique to create soft and realistic volumes. The core narrative and visual of the piece lies in the bold and selective use of color: a vibrant crimson red that explodes against the black background and the monochromatic skin. This palette concentrates on the dense and textured bandage of thread that covers the eyes, on the full lips with a glossy finish, on the expressive and raw brushstroke on the cheek, and on the fabric headdress or flower that emerges from her dark hair. The meticulous brushwork in the fibrous texture of the bandage contrasts with the smoothness of the skin, demonstrating the versatility of oil to represent different surfaces. With this composition, the painter wishes to convey a deep symbolic exploration of blindness imposed or self-imposed by passion, desire, or submission. The red band serves as a visual gag, silencing the perception of the surroundings and forcing an internal experience centered on the visceral and the sensual, represented by the lips, while the red stain on the cheek adds a note of violence or underlying emotional wound. It is a work that challenges objective vision in favor of pure and tearful emotion.