La morte nue/ the naked death by Jorge Humberto Tapia Perez (Original Painting)
Paintings by Jorge Humberto Tapia Perez For Sale
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Title: La morte nue/ the naked death
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Artist: Jorge Humberto Tapia Perez
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Category: Paintings
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Medium: oil on canvas
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Size (inches): 15,7x19,7
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Year: 2025
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Framed?: Framed
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Shipping from: Germany
Price: $1110
Artwork description
We must recognize the power of Thanatos—not as a threat, but as a fundamental truth of existence. A path toward a more conscious, perhaps better life begins with accepting our own vulnerability. We are naked and unprotected, and it is precisely in this state that our humanity is revealed.
In La mort nue, death appears as a strong, corporeal presence. It does not hide or intimidate; it simply exists. The body rests upon a bed of chrysanthemums—flowers of transition that carry both farewell and tenderness. The surrounding space is green, a realm of hope, regeneration, and cyclical return.
The work brings together Mexican and European conceptions of death. The chrysanthemum bed and the Catrina-like face draw from Mexican traditions of remembrance and continuity, while the reference to Thanatos evokes a European, existential understanding of death as truth and mirror. In this convergence, death is neither denied nor romanticized, but recognized as a shared human condition.
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