“Don Quixote and Sancho Panza”

Description

Title:“Don Quixote and Sancho Panza”

Dimensions: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Style: German Expressionism – Contemporary
Artist: ArNoUx
Year: 2025
Signature: ArNoUx, lower right corner

–Curatorial Description (English):
“Don Quixote and Sancho Panza” — painted in the visceral language of German Expressionism, this work channels the inner chaos and idealism of Cervantes’ timeless characters. The artist’s choice of explosive color contrasts — cobalt blues, fiery reds, and ochres — creates a psychological battlefield between illusion and loyalty. The figures emerge through layers of abstraction, symbolizing the blurred line between madness and faith, friendship and delusion. The red stroke above them functions as both divine passion and human suffering, a metaphoric bloodline of artistic resistance.
The gestural brushwork, thick impasto, and emotional distortion recall the heritage of Kirchner, Nolde, and Beckmann, reinterpreted with a 21st-century urgency. The result is an unfiltered dialogue between literature and painting — between dreamers and witnesses, between vision and despair.
This piece stands as a tribute to the spirit of creative rebellion that unites the German Expressionists, bridging the European avant-garde and Latin American expressionism under one existential light.