Spanish Naïf School (c. 1970) - The Witches

- Oil on board. Hand-signed. Some damages. - In the darkest corner of popular imagination lives a myth that art has fed for centuries: that of the woman as the «perverse invariant», a direct channel to what is forbidden, the irrational and the diabolical. The described scene, with its atmosphere of clandestine liturgy, operates as a visual catalog of historical fears that crystallized in the figure of the witch, unfolding this supposed perversity in two inseparable threads: the flesh and the sacrilege. On the one hand, the naked woman who offers a dead bird to the diabolic feline — symbol of lust and the night — embodies renunciation of civilized morality to pact with the wild; a nakedness that is not innocence but dispossession, where the female body becomes the weak link that yields to the beast’s blind pulse in exchange for forbidden power. On the other hand, the scene seals its heretical character by inverting the sacred, represented by the figure holding a chalice in flames. This object functions as the perfect antithesis of liturgical communion: if the institutional chalice contains life and redemption, the witch’s chalice overflows with a destructive fire that symbolizes chaos and spiritual dissent. This archetype is not accidental; by historically placing the woman in complicity with the demonic, the collective imagination justified the need to watch, contain and punish her autonomy. The painting thus becomes a reminder of that deep-seated cultural suspicion: the idea that a woman, when escaping the control of home or altar, immediately becomes the priestess of the abyss. - Dimensions of the unframed image: 73 x 92 cm / 83 x 101 cm with exclusive custom frame. At Montbaron Gallery, we are pleased to offer our clients an exclusive selection of artworks, all of them unique, original and unrepeatable. Each piece in our gallery is the result of profound dedication, a creative vision and masterful technique, characteristics that guarantee its authenticity. 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Estimation:€400

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