Viva La Vida by Takwa Sabry
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 120 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $3000.00 USD
Status: available
Viva La Vida is an acrylic on canvas celebration of life in all its colour, movement, and intensity. Vibrant pinks, reds, turquoise, deep blues, and flashes of orange come together through expressive brushstrokes, splashes, and cascading drips, creating a sense of energy and spontaneity. The work is about embracing both the beauty and the chaos—the unexpected moments, the energy, and the freedom of simply being alive.
Why collect this work?
A broad band of saturated pink near the top acts as a visual threshold: slender trails fall from it through a crowded field, making gravity the painting’s clearest organizing force.
- Sabry’s profile frames her practice as an exploration of emotion, memory and identity. In this painting, that stated interest is carried by accumulation and collision rather than by a readable figure or narrative.
- The photograph shows angled strokes, scattered flecks and narrow vertical lines layered across turquoise, dark blue, orange and pink. Small pale gaps prevent the dense centre from becoming a single uninterrupted mass.
- The documented acrylic on canvas makes possible sharp colour contrasts, broad coverage and fluid runs within one surface. Here, these different kinds of mark establish distinct speeds, from abrupt swipes to slow-looking descents.
- Catalogued as Viva La Vida and dated 2024, the work sets an affirmative title against a composition that is crowded and resistant to calm resolution. It is a useful encounter with celebration presented as excess rather than harmony.
About the Artist
Takwa Sabry
Takwa Sabry is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting. Based in Dubai, AE.
Takwa Sabry is a visual artist whose practice inhabits the space between emotion, memory, and identity, weaving painting, mixed media & symbolism.