Venus on the bed by Takeru Amano Explore Mondoir Collection Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 134 x 109 cm Year: 2018 Price on request Status: available Why collect this work?A simplified nude turns away while looking back, making pose rather than anatomy the painting’s central source of tension. Amano’s title identifies the figure as Venus, but the image replaces classical attributes with blunt outlines, an ordinary bed and a nearly featureless setting. Myth is recast as a concise contemporary character study.In the supplied photograph, the seated figure occupies the lower right while uninterrupted yellow fills most of the upper field. Her dark hair and blue eyes punctuate the pale body; the backward glance complicates an otherwise closed, self-contained silhouette.The documented acrylic on canvas supports broad, opaque colour areas and sharply separated contours. Here, those properties reduce spatial depth, while faint beige shading and blue-violet bedding lines keep the body from becoming entirely flat.At 134 by 109 cm, the painting gives an economical graphic figure substantial physical scale. It is particularly useful for considering how a mythological name can persist after narrative setting, idealised anatomy and symbolic accessories have been stripped away. About the ArtistTakeru Amano Takeru Amano is an artist featured in the Mondoir Collection. Nationality: Japanese
