From a screenshot of an Instagram story by the Spanish actor and model Manu Rios. He is shirtless, in wraparound black sunglasses and a thin silver chain with a dark pendant; a pale wall sits behind him on the left and a stippled tree of blue and white crowds in on the upper right. The face is where the painting commits — the plum-wine mouth, the small dark mustache, the blush on the cheek, a single highlight on the nose. Everything else is handled at a different speed. The necklace is a few dragged lines of white. The chest is warm flesh tones laid in wet and left alone. The shoulder on the right dissolves into the wall. One of the artist's ongoing celebrity-crush portraits — a small series painted from images that circulate on phones, the source material already compressed and cropped by the time it reaches the panel.
- Subject Matter: Portrait
- Collections: Portraits and Figures