Venus by Takeru Amano Explore Mondoir Collection Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: height 117 cm Year: 2019 Price on request Status: available Why collect this work?Venus reduces the mythic nude to a few emphatic contours, making the gap between a culturally loaded title and a deliberately spare figure the painting’s central tension. The supplied artist profile identifies Venus as a recurring subject in Takeru Amano’s practice. Repetition matters here because the name functions less as a narrative reference than as a framework for revising an inherited figure.In the photograph, the kneeling body fills most of the square field, while an expansive saturated pink ground removes any setting. Tiny blue eyes and a short mouth leave expression unresolved; the dark form below compresses support and shadow into one shape.Catalogued as acrylic on canvas and 117 cm high, the painting uses flat, opaque-looking areas and firm outlines. Acrylic makes such sharply separated passages possible, while the scale gives the simplified body a physical presence beyond that of a small illustration.The work is particularly useful for examining how a familiar classical name can persist after attributes, setting, and naturalistic modelling have been stripped away. About the ArtistTakeru Amano Takeru Amano is an artist featured in the Mondoir Collection. Nationality: Japanese
