70 x 50 cms (27.5″x19.6″)
Acrylic on canvas
This painting asks further questions about beauty, sensuality, and mystery. Where does the beauty in this painting lie?
Is it in the beautiful form of the woman, the sensuality of the moment or the intangible personal experience portrayed?
Is this a morning stretch, a moment of pleasure, or someone simply reveling in the beauty of their own being?
Fantastic!!! Really rather breath taking, and sexy without being exploitive. The rhythms flow like music, and there is a wonderful sense of drama and mystery in this. BRAVO!! RF
Thanks Robert.
This is one of my favorite paintings of yours! Beautiful!
Thanks Dave. That means a lot to me. I’m glad you like it.
Absolutely beautiful! The light and shade detail gives this painting such depth. Divine work, Bravo!
Thank you Michel.
Māra:
“You, a beautiful young woman;
I, a young man, full of youth.
Come, Khemā,
let’s enjoy ourselves
to the music of a five-piece band.”
Khemā:
“I’m disgusted, ashamed
of this putrid body—
disintegrating, dissolving.
Sensual craving
is rooted out.
Sensual pleasures
are like swords & spears;
the aggregates,
their executioner’s block.
What you call sensual delight
is no delight for me.
Everywhere enjoyment
is defeated;
the mass of darkness,
burst.
So know, Evil One,
that you have been,
End-maker,
struck down.”
* * *
Paying homage to the zodiac stars,
tending the fire in the forest,
not knowing it as it actually was,
fools, you conceived it
as purity.
Whereas I
am one who pays homage
to the One Self-awakened,
the utmost man.
I’m one who has done the Teacher’s bidding,
entirely released
from sufferings & stress.”
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/Thig/thig6_3.html