The nude in Eugenia's work

Eugenia Belin Sarmiento's nudes include typical workshop poses, intended for artists to explore foreshortening and volume effects. But there, her nudes are far from being limited to these parameters. A not insignificant number of works by her hand show nudes out of the norm: unexpected poses, unexpected scenarios and intriguing atmospheres. Once Eugenia Belin Sarmiento acquired mastery of the figuration of the body, she applied her sensitivity to create a corpus of anomalous nudes.

Eugenia Belin Sarmiento's training did not follow a traditional path, adjusted to the academic model. It was only in Europe, where she lived with her brother Augusto de Ella, that the artist began to closely explore the subject of the nude. The poses Workshops like this allowed him to develop his abilities to observe the human body.

In the work on the left, we see a traditional academic exercise: the representation of the human figure with arms crossed over an object. The artist's gaze, in addition to studying the complex volume of her arms and back, stops at the model's expression.

On the other hand, in the one on the right, the choice to focus on a strange gesture (that of the model covering her face with her hands) is found in various works by the artist. The hidden face draws our attention to the subjectivity of the person represented, preventing us from reducing it to a visual object.