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ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 130X98CM DATED 89 THIS WORK IS LISTED IN THE ARTIST'S ARCHIVES.
"The universe of Luís Lemos presents a mythological journey of emotional moments. Each moment is revealed by a body, a posture and a face. The image of the painting is born from the fusion of these three elements and their unitary synthesis creates the mystical parameter , specific to each work."
Luís Lemos has a strongly sensual and engaging aesthetic and career, focused on the human body. His painting is linked to "wild neo-expressionism" and "bad-painting", a trend in American figurative painting of the 1970s, as classified by critic and curator Marcia Tucker.
With works produced from 1983 to the present day and jumping from one aesthetic line to another, Luís Lemos paints large spots with primary paints in which color becomes the structuring form of balance in each painting, assuming in a way coherent and daring a simple, irreverent and even somewhat contemptuous language of the canons of good taste, in which the distortion of the figure is intentional and not technical incompetence on the part of the artist.
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