Embarrassment - Mkhitar Aslanian

Artwork Details

• Original Artwork, created in 2025
• Material: Oil on board
• Artwork Size: 90 × 70 cm
• Sold framed
• Certificate Of Authenticity, Hand Signed

About

This painting explores one of the most delicate human emotions: the brief moment of inner uncertainty when the outside world suddenly feels overwhelmingly close. The central figure appears to hide the face, shielding not only from the viewer but from an intensely personal emotional experience. The posture conveys psychological tension more powerfully than facial expression ever could.

Brilliant reds and warm oranges contrast with calm blues and greens surrounding the figure, making emotion itself the true subject of the composition. The geometric fragments and surrounding objects do not construct a realistic interior but instead become projections of the character's inner state, where every colour carries emotional meaning.

Embarrassment is a meditation on human vulnerability, on that fleeting instant when emotion overcomes language and silence becomes the most truthful expression of the self.