Lot 70452

Arturo Lemus Beltrán

Silence

Medium

Aceite sobre lienzo

Dimensions

200 x 120 cm

Framing

Unframed · Custom framing on request

Description

Arturo Lemus Beltrán

Painting
Oil on canvas
Contemporary Realism
200 x 120 cm

The Golden Veil and the Oath of Water

In the magnetic and enigmatic work SILENCE, the viewer is summoned to a rite of profound reverence and stillness. The painting immerses us in a twilight atmosphere of intense reddish and coppery tones, where the boundary between living flesh, water, and metal dissolves to give way to a meditation on the secrecy and sacredness of nature.

Emerging from a pool of golden, mirror-like waters rises the figure of a child whose luminous amber gaze confronts us with an ancestral, hypnotic intensity. His face, marked by a distinct band of golden pigment across his cheeks, invests him with the undeniable authority of a guardian of earthly mysteries. With his hands delicately clasped, he holds a large textured leaf to his lips, a literal and deeply poetic gesture that invokes absolute silence and seals his voice in an unbreakable oath to the ecosystem.

Framing this solemn presence is a crown and canopy of transmuted vegetation. The wild leaves and flowers enveloping him have shed their organic fragility, crystallizing into sheets of pure gold and burnished bronze that shine with a perpetual light defying the transience of biological time. This visual alchemy reinforces the idea of a flora that not only shelters but also serves as eternal armor for those who revere it.

True to its title, the work is an elegy to nonverbal communication, to that primal language that requires no human articulation. It reminds us that, at the heart of the natural world and beneath the perfect reflection of the water, the deepest truths and most sacred treasures can only be understood and guarded through an unconditional devotion to silence.