Villafuerte - Vitruvian Vanity
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Vitruvian Vanity is an original acrylic painting by Villafuerte (2022), hand signed, measuring 97 × 122 cm, in excellent condition, created in Spain and classified as Abstract Expressionism.
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Vitruvian Vanity
Acrylic on canvas, 97 × 122 cm, 2022
A solitary figure stands arms outstretched against a hazy, dissolving landscape — somewhere between portrait and diagram, memory and blueprint. Loose, gestural linework traces an anatomy that seems to flicker in and out of focus, set against washes of jade, sage, and pale violet that suggest a horizon without quite committing to one.
The painting nods to classical ideals of the human form while resisting their certainty — proportion and outline are suggested rather than fixed, drawn and redrawn as if the artist were working out an argument on the canvas itself. The result sits somewhere between figuration and erasure, control and looseness, giving the work a restless, unresolved energy.
A striking presence for a dining room, study, or gallery wall — scaled to anchor a room without overwhelming it, and rendered in a palette that reads as both grounding and slightly otherworldly.
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.
Vitruvian Vanity
Acrylic on canvas, 97 × 122 cm, 2022
A solitary figure stands arms outstretched against a hazy, dissolving landscape — somewhere between portrait and diagram, memory and blueprint. Loose, gestural linework traces an anatomy that seems to flicker in and out of focus, set against washes of jade, sage, and pale violet that suggest a horizon without quite committing to one.
The painting nods to classical ideals of the human form while resisting their certainty — proportion and outline are suggested rather than fixed, drawn and redrawn as if the artist were working out an argument on the canvas itself. The result sits somewhere between figuration and erasure, control and looseness, giving the work a restless, unresolved energy.
A striking presence for a dining room, study, or gallery wall — scaled to anchor a room without overwhelming it, and rendered in a palette that reads as both grounding and slightly otherworldly.
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
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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
97 cm
Width
122 cm
Weight
1 kg
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
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