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Fait moi Voler - Original Oil Painting by Naïma Namaste
Description of the Artwork
This painting is inspired by Irving Penn’s iconic Bee-Stung Lips photograph (1995, Vogue).
I wanted to reinterpret this powerful image through a more sensual, romantic, and painterly lens, using rich colors and layered textures.
 
I painted a bumblebee resting on soft red lips, surrounded by abstract purple butterflies, creating a dreamy and poetic atmosphere that gently departs from the starkness of the original photograph.
 
The French words visible in the upper left of the canvas, “Spleen et Idéal” by Charles Baudelaire, echo the inner world of this piece.
 
“Spleen et Idéal” speaks of the eternal human tension between our desire to rise toward beauty, love, and meaning, and our tendency to fall into melancholy, longing, and darkness. It expresses the soul’s continuous movement between despair and transcendence;  between the heaviness of existence and the thirst for absolute beauty.
 
For me, this painting embodies that fragile space where beauty is born from vulnerability, where darkness can coexist with grace, and where sensuality becomes a doorway to something sacred.
 
Visual Artwork Informations
  • Title: Fait moi voler (Make me fly)
  • Artist: Naïma Namaste
  • Medium: Oil painting and Mixed medias
  • Surface: Stretched canvas
  • Dimensions: 40x40cm (15,7 x 15,7 inches)
  • Framing: Unframed
  • Certificate of Authenticity: Yes
  • Original Artwork: Yes (signed by the artist)
  • Shipping: Free international shipping from France

Fait moi Voler - Original Oil Painting by Naïma Namaste

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