I search in vain for the work of artists with a similar feeling
for the figure to my own: those who attempt to de-euphemize society’s overt sexual
connotations with nudity and to depict the human form in its primal state.
They are few and far between, but occasionally I strike gold.
I found the work of the self-taught Spanish artist Nicoletta
Tomas Caravia (1963 - ) by way of a link from one of my followers. He has this to say about his series of paintings titled “Lovers”,
and from which today’s painting is taken:
To paint
that love, that island of comfort, to paint the energy that moves us in that
state of intoxication…I wanted a language of the body that would carry all the
emotion of that dance of love, of carnality, which is that love from within,
the drama of passion, that which irradiates and that which cannot be touched
but only felt…I drank from many painters: Klimt, Schiele, Picasso, Gauguin and
many others…I have taken something of value from each of them.
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