Face to Face I: Instinct
Face to Face I: Instinct
Realizm
Wampiry i nietoperze and Fantastyka i science fiction
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🖼️ Art print on canvas
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High quality canvas printing :
- Canvas - synthetic canvas 260 g
- Natural Canvas - 260 g cotton canvas
- Stretching the canvas onto the frame
- Quality control and packaging
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🎨 Oil Giclée Reproduction (print + hand-finished)
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Giclée print on canvas:
- Canvas premium - natural cotton canvas 360 g
- Pigment print drying
- Hand finishing: texturing and oil painting
- Paint drying (depending on layer thickness, medium type and format)
- Stretching the canvas onto the frame
- Quality control and packaging
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🚚 Ready-made paintings – shipped within 24 hours
Our gallery has a special category called "Ready-Made Paintings" - these are works available immediately, already stretched on a frame or in a ready-made frame.
- They are 100% ready for immediate shipment
- Safe packaging in a reinforced cardboard box
Shipping takes place within: from the date of booking the order.
Image format: Reprodukcja Oil Giclée
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1. Title
"Face to Face I: Instinct"
2. Description of the image
In a square composition, focused on the absolute tension of the moment, the vampire and the bat are almost nose-to-nose. Both figures—suspended in motion—open their mouths, baring their fangs in a silent, animalistic expression. The vampire, with eyes full of stern determination, looks not like a human but like the pure essence of instinct. The bat, wings spread, does not back down. This is not a fight—it is a meeting of two mirrors, two forms of the same truth.
3. Technology
The painting is oil on canvas with a heavy use of impasto. The brushstrokes are heavy and textured, especially in the areas of the face, fangs, and bat wings. The background, though abstract, also contains traces of dynamic painterly gestures, building the tension of the space.
4. Style
The style is expressive and symbolic, full of painterly tension. The composition is minimalistic yet psychologically intense – everything focuses on the gaze, the opening of the mouth, and the breath that will never be released.
5. Colors
Dark, contrasting hues: deep black, sharp white, intense red, and steely moonlight. These colors don't tell the story of the world—they recreate it, defining the space between aggression and recognition.
6. Invoice
Texture is the main character of the painting – the faces are painted almost sculpturally, the paint visible and pulsating. Each stroke carries emotional, not just aesthetic, power. You can feel the tension not only in the composition, but literally beneath your fingers.
7. Inspiration
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Francis Bacon – for the physical tension of the psyche and form.
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Géricault (“Portraits of Madness”) – for the severity of his gaze.
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The symbolism of the mirror image – man versus his shadow.
8. Message and interpretation
"Face to Face I: Instinct" is a portrait of the moment when we cease to be a person and become a being. It's a scene not of confrontation, but of realization. Who am I if I see myself in my opponent? This isn't aggression—it's the understanding that instinct is not alien, but shared.
9. Originality
It's a stark yet universal image. "Face to Face I: Instinct" doesn't seek delight—it compels it. It's a work that doesn't ask to be viewed—it compels you to stand and look. Not at the image—but within yourself.
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