The True Meaning

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Original painting artwork details
  • Year created: 1996
  • Medium: oil on cardboard
  • Dimensions (cm): 81x119
Artwork description

The True Meaning combines religious imagery with surreal distortions that blur the boundaries between the sacred and the abstract. At its center, a figure in a red garment gazes upward, one hand pressed against the chest, evoking devotion, suffering, or revelation. Another shadowed face lurks behind, adding tension and mystery to the narrative.

Surrounding these figures, sweeping arcs of peach, cream, and metallic tones dominate the canvas. The forms resemble draped fabric or ceremonial robes, but their exaggerated distortions and reflective textures create an almost dreamlike unreality. The composition bends and warps as though the scene is being viewed through a fractured mirror, heightening its intensity and instability.

At the top, a glimpse of deep blue sky and darkened structures opens the painting outward, offering a fleeting sense of space amid the enclosed forms. The True Meaning transforms a moment of spiritual weight into an otherworldly vision, inviting contemplation on faith, struggle, and the distortion of truth.

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