Villafuerte - Vitruvian Vanity
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Original 2022 acrylic painting Vitruvian Vanity by Villafuerte, 98 cm by 122 cm, signed, in excellent condition, made in Spain and sold direct from the artist.
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Description from the seller
Modernist Noel Villafuerte's artworks are all about the experiential journey. His highly unique pieces are alive and bursting with intense colour. Inspired from the heart, they are works of great feeling that engage and absorb the viewer. Through his art, Noel explores universal themes reflecting the human condition and enduring spirit. Noel's style is spontaneous and free, resulting in textured and layered canvases of great depth and power. Noel has displayed his artworks in solo and group exhibitions internationally.
Seller's Story
Noel Villafuerte is a contemporary painter based in southern Spain.
My art is not about me.
My art is all me.
That is the paradox.
The work is not autobiography, identity, or explanation. It does not describe a life; it emerges from one.
Every gesture, hesitation, rhythm, fracture, and layer carries something lived, even when nothing literal is being depicted.
The paintings are not self-portraits in image, but in energy. Instinctive, emotional, contradictory, unresolved, human.
What matters is not where the artist comes from, but whether the work reaches something recognisable beyond language: tension, vulnerability, movement, silence, longing, release.
The paradox remains: the work is not about the artist, yet the artist is entirely inside it.
Modernist Noel Villafuerte's artworks are all about the experiential journey. His highly unique pieces are alive and bursting with intense colour. Inspired from the heart, they are works of great feeling that engage and absorb the viewer. Through his art, Noel explores universal themes reflecting the human condition and enduring spirit. Noel's style is spontaneous and free, resulting in textured and layered canvases of great depth and power. Noel has displayed his artworks in solo and group exhibitions internationally.
Seller's Story
Noel Villafuerte is a contemporary painter based in southern Spain.
My art is not about me.
My art is all me.
That is the paradox.
The work is not autobiography, identity, or explanation. It does not describe a life; it emerges from one.
Every gesture, hesitation, rhythm, fracture, and layer carries something lived, even when nothing literal is being depicted.
The paintings are not self-portraits in image, but in energy. Instinctive, emotional, contradictory, unresolved, human.
What matters is not where the artist comes from, but whether the work reaches something recognisable beyond language: tension, vulnerability, movement, silence, longing, release.
The paradox remains: the work is not about the artist, yet the artist is entirely inside it.
Details
Artist
Villafuerte
Sold with frame
No
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Vitruvian Vanity
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
2022
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
98 cm
Width
122 cm
Weight
1 kg
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
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