World as a Gift (2025)Acrylic painting by Ana Mutavdžić

Acrylic painting, Canvas, 150x100 cm
World as a Gift portrays a human figure as a vast, open vessel carrying an entire world within itself, a vibrant mosaic of colors, memories, and imagined places. The silhouette, softly bent forward, suggests an intimate gesture of offering, as though the figure is presenting everything it holds deep inside.
Within the body lies a cityscape rendered in luminous fragments of turquoise, red, and warm earth tones. These scattered shapes evoke the richness of lived experience: moments, emotions, and stories that form the inner world each person carries. The abstract drips and textured layers create the sense of something alive and precious, lovingly gathered over time.
The painting captures the profound idea that there is someone in our lives to whom we would give everything—our whole world, without hesitation. The figure does not give a material gift, but the totality of who they are: their dreams, their tenderness, their inner universe.
In this quiet, emotional offering, the artwork becomes a tribute to love so deep that one heart is ready to lay an entire world into another’s hands.

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 100 x 150 x 2cm (unframed) / 100 x 150cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative

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