La señora impúdica 1933

Angel Planells made “La señora impúdica” with oil on canvas, though when, I couldn’t tell you. The slightly lurid palette gives the piece a dreamlike feel, like a half-remembered scene. It’s a painting that’s all about texture and surface. The paint is applied thinly, almost like a stain, in some areas, and thickly troweled on in others, creating a kind of sculptural relief. Take the faces, for example, they're rendered with a tactile quality, as if sculpted from clay. This contrasts with the flatness of the sky and foreground, creating a push and pull between illusion and reality. The central figure is unsettling. She seems caught between states of being and planes of reality. Planells feels like a cousin of De Chirico, both artists are committed to representing this sense of strangeness. Art, like dreams, thrives on ambiguity and contradiction. It’s not about finding a single, definitive meaning, but about embracing the richness of interpretation.