Description
Title: María Elena
Artist: ArNoUx
Year: 2025
Medium: Marker and acrylic on cardboard
Dimensions: Approx. 9 x 12 in. (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
Style: German Expressionist, Abstract Figurative
Curatorial Note:
María Elena is a striking mixed-media portrait that captures vulnerability and intensity in a fragmented, emotionally charged style. Created with layered markers and subtle strokes of acrylic, the composition suggests both the unfinished and the unfiltered—a moment suspended in raw emotion and conceptual form.
ArNoUx presents María Elena with violet-shadowed eyes and sharply defined facial planes, her expression unreadable yet magnetic. The geometric cube floating beside her—outlined in green and tinged with yellow—suggests mental or spiritual space, a symbolic object contrasting the organic and chaotic strokes of the figure.
Painted on cardboard, the work stays grounded in the material honesty typical of ArNoUx’s German Expressionist language. There is a sense of anticipation, of a story unfolding through future brushwork, yet it holds its own as a complete emotional imprint—intimate, questioning, and distinctly human.
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