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The River’s Son (2025)Oil painting by Oleksandr Balbyshev
80 x 125 x 2.5cm (unframed)
£6,107.85Sold
Original artwork description
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About the artwork
Emerging from a world of fluid color and rebirth, The River’s Son reimagines the male nude as a contemporary myth — a queer counterpart to Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.
Where Venus rises from the sea, born of divine beauty, the River’s Son steps out of a living current, embodying desire, self-awareness, and the sensual sanctity of the male form.
His pose recalls the poise of Renaissance ideals, yet his body radiates modern energy — painted in electric hues that dissolve the boundaries between flesh and landscape. He is not an object of worship, but a being in transformation: vulnerable, radiant, and defiantly alive.
In this painting, queer masculinity is not hidden behind shame or allegory. It stands reborn — luminous and mythic — claiming its place in the continuum of beauty that history once denied.
The River’s Son becomes both a tribute and a rebellion: a celebration of the body as nature’s own masterpiece, ever fluid, ever divine.
PLEASE NOTE: The buyer will be responsible for paying international customs fees, determined by the country the artwork is being shipped to. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to making a purchase.
Materials used:
Oil on canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 80 x 125 x 2.5cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
Tags:
#handsome#young man#renaissance#gay#queer#myth#pride#male body#sensuality#male beauty#homoerotic#lgbtq+
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Original artwork description
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE. Due to the war, russia started against my country, the international delivery can take about two to three weeks.
About the artwork
Emerging from a world of fluid color and rebirth, The River’s Son reimagines the male nude as a contemporary myth — a queer counterpart to Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.
Where Venus rises from the sea, born of divine beauty, the River’s Son steps out of a living current, embodying desire, self-awareness, and the sensual sanctity of the male form.
His pose recalls the poise of Renaissance ideals, yet his body radiates modern energy — painted in electric hues that dissolve the boundaries between flesh and landscape. He is not an object of worship, but a being in transformation: vulnerable, radiant, and defiantly alive.
In this painting, queer masculinity is not hidden behind shame or allegory. It stands reborn — luminous and mythic — claiming its place in the continuum of beauty that history once denied.
The River’s Son becomes both a tribute and a rebellion: a celebration of the body as nature’s own masterpiece, ever fluid, ever divine.
PLEASE NOTE: The buyer will be responsible for paying international customs fees, determined by the country the artwork is being shipped to. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to making a purchase.
Materials used:
Oil on canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 80 x 125 x 2.5cm (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
Tags:
#handsome#young man#renaissance#gay#queer#myth#pride#male body#sensuality#male beauty#homoerotic#lgbtq+
Oleksandr Balbyshev
Ukraine
About
Oleksandr Balbyshev was born in 1985 in Ukraine, one of the biggest Soviet Republics. After graduating from The Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 2012, he was... Read more