Dimensions: 23.6in x 31.5in
This oil painting by Alberto Juárez subtly and powerfully captures the intimacy of the human body in its most vulnerable and authentic state. A female body, devoid of face and surrounded by a white void, withdraws into itself in an introspective gesture. The carefully detailed hands embrace, contain, and shelter, as if trying to hold a nameless emotion. The deliberate absence of the face transforms the body into a universal symbol of human feeling: desire, pain, refuge, or contemplation. "Corporal Silence" is a visual meditation on identity, emotional nakedness, and the expressive power of the body as a pure language.
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