Yamila Machado Velázquez - Guardianes del Trópico

Artwork by artist Yamila Machado Velázquez created in high-quality professional oil on canvas. Dimensions of 80 x 60 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 shipped rolled and protected with several layers of packaging, bubble wrap, and placed in a sturdy tube. Once the work is paid for, three days are required for the packaging process and delivery to the shipping company. The piece will reach you within ten days, depending on the destination country. “This lot contains visualizations made with AI. Please consult the original photographs to verify the real condition of the work.”

This dazzling and vibrant piece, made in oil on canvas, delves into contemporary neo-figurativism with strong Fauvist influences and magical realism, standing out for a bold chromatic contrast where the deep cobalt blue and night blue of the panther in the foreground dialogue with the burning ocher yellow and the inky splotches of the jaguar that accompanies it. The composition positions both felines frontally and monumentally, emerging among a lush tropical vegetation in lime green and emerald tones, highlighting the hypnotic, feline gaze tinted with a burning golden yellow that fixes its attention on the viewer. Through the richness of impasto and the powerful play between sunlight and the jungle’s shadow, the artist achieves an expression of nature’s duality (day and night, the visible and the enigmatic), the untamed majesty of wildlife, and a vital energy full of power, instinct, and serene complicity.