Description
Body Beside Body – three dark arcs on fire
Painting on canvas catches three heavily simplified figures mid-movement — the first leaning left, the second standing centrally with arms thrown wide, the third stooped at the lower right: abstract painting in effect, because the bodies are nearly black and each head is marked by one white dot and nothing else. The ground behind is hot and restless, red and orange and gold.
Technique and texture
The colour is set down with a knife in wide flat tiles that do not blend, so every pass stays legible as its own plane. The bodies are worked in dark dense deposits with white light dragged across them on a narrow tip. Underneath, the paint is built from short crossing strokes that never repeat the same way twice.
The motif
None of the figures has a face, and the arms and legs are drawn out into thin bent arcs. The movement is read from posture rather than detail: the bodies are turned the same way, as though following one another. Cool blue-green planes appear along the left and upper right edges and hold the hot middle inside a frame.
Setting and placement
Colour this strong needs a calm, light wall and a little distance to settle. This belongs in a living room, a foyer or a studio where movement is already the subject of the room.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, flat knife tiles, dense dark deposits, dragged white accents
- Palette: carmine red, orange, gold, black, blue-green
- Ideal for: living rooms, foyers, studios
- Character: dynamic, expressive, hot
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Which size for Body Beside Body?
Body Beside Body is painted in 15 sizes, from 50 x 50 to 260 x 175 cm, mostly landscape but also three squares: 50 x 50, 170 x 170 and 200 x 200 cm. Let the three dark figures on their fiery ground take about two thirds of the furniture’s width: 130 x 85 or 140 x 95 cm over a 200 cm sofa, 110 x 73 or 120 x 80 cm above a 160–180 cm bed, 100 x 67 cm over a dining table. The 170 x 170 cm square fills a tall open wall in a living room or foyer.
The red-orange canvas comes stretched on a wooden stretcher and ready to hang when you pick YES under Stretcher. Body Beside Body comes without a frame unless you pick one in the Frame menu, which starts at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days. This painting’s figures, with white dots for heads, are hand-painted with a knife and a narrow tip, not printed.
Before ordering Body Beside Body
Which size of Body Beside Body suits a sofa wall?
Over a 200 cm sofa choose 130 x 85 or 140 x 95 cm, so the three figures and the fiery ground span two thirds of the width.
Is Body Beside Body available as a square?
Yes, in three square sizes, 50 x 50, 170 x 170 and 200 x 200 cm, next to the landscape ones.
Is Body Beside Body a print or painted by hand?
Painted by hand: the dark figures, the white head dots and the red, orange and gold tiles are laid on the canvas with a knife.
Can I order Body Beside Body in another size?
Yes, we paint the three figures on their fiery ground to fit your wall too, see paintings made to order.
