Spanish Naïf School (c. 1970) - The Witches

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

- In the darkest corner of the popular imagination there lives a myth that art has fed for centuries: the woman as the 'perverse invariant', a direct channel to the prohibited, the irrational and the diabolic. The described scene, with its atmosphere of clandestine liturgy, functions as a visual catalog of historical fears that crystallized in the figure of the witch, unfolding this supposed perversity in two inseparable avenues: flesh and sacrilege. On the one hand, the naked woman who offers a dead bird to the diabolic feline — a symbol of lust and night — embodies renunciation of civilized morality to pact with the wild; a nakedness that is not innocence but dispossession, where the female body becomes the weak link that yields to the beast’s blind pulsion 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 functions as the perfect antithesis of liturgical communion: if the institutional chalice contains life and redemption, the witch’s chalice overflows with a destructive fire that symbolizes chaos and spiritual dissent. This archetype is not accidental; by historically placing the woman in complicity with the demonic, the collective imagination justified the need to watch over, contain, and punish her autonomy. The painting thus becomes a reminder of that ingrained cultural suspicion: the idea that a woman, escaping the control of home or altar, immediately 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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