Alma Fernández Tercero
RitualInquire about availability
- Year
- 2017
- Technique
- Oil/Canvas
- Dimensions
- 76 × 61 cm
- Status
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- Palette
- petrol blue, soft pink, pearl white, jet black, peach
- Brushwork
- Soft blending in carnations and backgrounds with light stippling of splatters and precise graphic lines in the curls of the hair.
Curatorial analysis
Curatorial analysis
A frontal and restrained gaze, suspended between wakefulness and a meditative trance, anchors the gravity of this image. The female figure emerges from a watery or celestial mantle, wrapped in a vaporous white that softens and dissolves the lower contours of her body. The sculptural density of her dark hair, rendered through a continuous arabesque of curvilinear lines, immediately contrasts with the liquid, ethereal atmosphere surrounding her, giving the face an inescapable earthly presence amid a weightless setting.
The pictorial space dispenses with architectural references and physical horizons. Instead, a backdrop of blues ranging from cerulean to deep petroleum is enriched with pale glazes and fine spatters, evoking either marine depths or the immensity of a starry vault. Lotus flowers in varying stages of bloom float around the woman, alongside detached petals that seem to rest on or emerge from the mass of her hair, suggesting a ritualized time wherein nature responds to the subject's introspection.
There is a remarkable delicacy in the construction of the skin's warm tones, bathed in a diffuse light that avoids harsh shadows. The hands folded over the chest, almost in a posture of protection or private prayer, reinforce the vertical axis that sustains the composition, while the slender green stems of the flowers introduce a subtle organic counterpoint balancing the prevailing coolness of the blue.
This scene translates the notion of purification into a quiet pictorial reality. The interplay between the tangible volume of the hair and the progressive dissolution of the lower forms generates a sense of inner ascension, where the ritual is not proclaimed outward but unfolds entirely within the subject's quietude.
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