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Fuerza Vital, by Sara Morales. Three equine heads converge into a centripetal vortex toward the upper third of the canvas, where manes and silhouettes intertwine in a single swell of tension.

Sara Morales

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Year
2016
Technique
Acrylic/Canvas
Dimensions
120 × 120 cm
Status
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Palette
golden ochre, carmine red, slate blue, pale yellow, charcoal black
Brushwork
Faceted, angular acrylic brushstrokes applied with flat impasto and energetic contour lines.

Curatorial analysis

Three equine heads converge into a centripetal vortex toward the upper third of the canvas, where manes and silhouettes intertwine in a single swell of tension. Sara Morales fragments movement into sharp, faceted planes that register velocity not as a blur, but as a collision of articulated masses. The bodies are not built upon traditional anatomical placidity, but through extreme muscular strain: forelegs and hindquarters rising from a shadowed base to stage a tight dialogue of turns, brushes, and counter-movements.

The chromatic handling functions as the true structural framework of the picture. On the left, a horse defined by ochres, mustards, and pale blue glints withstands the thrust; toward the center and right, the palette ignites into vermilion, scarlet, and cool slate tones that electrify the surface. This thermal polarity sustains a continuous optical vibration, reinforced by horizontal trails traversing the pale ground to heighten the sensation of kinetic displacement. Light avoids any conventional external source, radiating instead from the ivory crevices of the background and from the sharp edges where saturated pigments meet without dissolving into one another.

The square format of one hundred and twenty centimeters compresses this visual discharge, preventing the energy from bleeding past the margins. Rather than offering a traditional equestrian study, the work asserts a physical allegory of shared power and instinctual friction, employing the horse as a vessel for primal drives. The medium, executed through decisive acrylic strokes that retain the immediacy of the gesture, locks into an image suspended between territorial confrontation and absolute communion.

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