21-430: Zerpa is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ángel Zerpa (born 1999), Venezuelan baseball player Carlos Zerpa (born 1950), Venezuelan painter Fabio Zerpa (1928–2019), Uruguayan actor, parapsychologist, and UFO researcher [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Zerpa . If an internal link intending to refer to
42-574: A barely detectable chair in the sky above the figure, appropriated from van Gogh's painting of his bedroom in Arles . Other works by the Carlos Zerpa series are, [El Dorado], [The Golden One] in the Nova series of 1987, acrylic on canvas 192x132 cm which exhibited at Caracas, Mercantil Collection. Other paintings Zerpa interprets [Acephalous, or The Headless One](1987), [This Golden Whale] (1987), [Trito, an Adam in
63-691: A given leg to walking or running upon it (so-called ponderation ). The leg that carries the weight of the body is known as the engaged leg, the relaxed leg is known as the free leg. Usually, the engaged leg is straight, or very slightly bent, and the free leg is slightly bent. Contrapposto is less emphasized than the more sinuous S-curve , and creates the illusion of past and future movement. A 2019 eye tracking study, by showing that contrapposto acts as supernormal stimulus and increases perceived attractiveness, has provided evidence and insight as to why, in artistic presentation, goddesses of beauty and love are often depicted in contrapposto pose. This
84-453: A mythology of its human and animal inhabitants primarily located in the Caribbean and the area now occupied by Venezuela. Zerpa after Christopher Columbus encountering "new tribes, strange animals and lush forests" Carlos capitalized these myths as well as on his grasp of Western art history, from which he appropriated liberally. Influence: Carlos Zerpa series the" India Nova's" El Dorado
105-557: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zerpa&oldid=1062838109 " Categories : Surnames Spanish-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carlos Zerpa Carlos Zerpa (born 1950 in Valencia , Venezuela ),
126-506: Is in many ways autobiographical. It recalls department store displays cases which serve as stages for his homages to the past. Zerpa also trained in design, photography and printmaking, paintings, drawings, sculptures, performances and installations, He exhibited internationally and won many awards. Carlos Zerpa trained in Italy, Germany, and United States; he blended kitsch with references to Giotto , van Gogh , Picasso , and Duchamp . His focus
147-424: Is used to express a more relaxed psychological disposition. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance. In the frontal plane this also results in opposite levels of shoulders and hips, for example: if the right hip is higher than the left; correspondingly the right shoulder will be lower than the left, and vice versa. It can further encompass the tension as a figure changes from resting on
168-613: The Hellenistic and Imperial Roman periods, fell out of use in the Middle Ages , and was later revived during the Renaissance . Michelangelo 's statue of David , one of the most iconic sculptures in the world, is a famous example of contrapposto . Contrapposto was historically an important sculptural development, for its appearance marks the first time in Western art that the human body
189-425: The 4th century BCE, it is one of the most important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos , Skopas , etc. The Polykletian statues ( Discophoros ("discus-bearer") and Doryphoros ("spear-bearer"), for example) are idealized athletic young men with the divine sense, and captured in contrapposto . In these works, the pelvis is no longer axial with the vertical statue as in
210-712: The Tropics] (1986). Zerpa had solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City in 1993 and at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas in 1994. Contrapposto Contrapposto ( Italian pronunciation: [kontrapˈposto] ) is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from
231-607: The archaic style of earlier Greek sculpture before Kritios Boy . Contrapposto can be clearly seen in the Roman copies of the statues of Hermes and Heracles . A famous example is the marble statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus in Olympia by Praxiteles . It can also be seen in the Roman copies of Polyclitus's Amazon . Greek art emphasized humanism along with the human mind and
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#1732890573450252-492: The farce by enhancing/ modifying a modern-day mythology for the new world. Zerpa did his own version of "El Dorado" the de Bry's 1594 print of an Indian ruler being dusted with gold before a ritual ceremony. In Zerpa's garishly colored painting, the Indian ruler stands in a classical contrapposto while the attendants sponge him with paint and blow the gold powder onto his naked body. A dark eagle hovers menacingly above. Zerpa reversed
273-553: The figures to account for the fact that the source was a printed image. The eagle in his painting substitutes for a mountain in de Bry's print. Zerpa managed to incorporate personal genuine totaling, for example by reversing the figures seeing as it was a printed image it was easily manipulated, he also replaced the mountain on de Bry's print with an eagle. There is major diversity on both de Bry's piece with Zerpa depiction of "El Dorado", but both equally respond individual. Zerpa's transformation of "El Dorado"(1987;PL. 12.8), "The Golden One"
294-464: The hips and legs in the axial plane . First appearing in Ancient Greece in the early 5th century BCE , contrapposto is considered a crucial development in the history of Ancient Greek art (and, by extension, Western art ), as it marks the first time in Western art that the human body is used to express a psychological disposition. The style was further developed and popularized by sculptors in
315-479: The human body's beauty. Greek youths trained and competed in athletic contests in the nude. A great contribution to the contrapposto pose was the concept of a canon of proportions, in which mathematical properties are used to create proportions. Classical contrapposto was revived in Renaissance art by the Italian artists Donatello and Leonardo da Vinci , followed by Michelangelo , Raphael and other artists of
336-463: The statue "the first beautiful nude in art". The statue is a Greek marble original and not a Roman copy. Prior to the introduction of contrapposto , the statues that dominated ancient Greece were the archaic kouros (male) and the kore (female). Contrapposto has been used since the dawn of classical western sculpture. According to the canon of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos in
357-717: Was a 20th-century Latin American painter. He moved to live in Milan in 1973 to study printmaking and photography at the Scuola Cova, and design with Bruno Munari at the Instituto Politécnico. Zerpa was a self-taught painter, by 1974 he was creating installations and performance pieces. He returned to Venezuela in 1980, but spent two years in New York: (1982 to 1984). By 1984 he ceased performing and concentrated on making objects. His work
378-425: Was a very stylistic approach with vibrant neon colors lavishing from the ground up. The totality of the golden one deems modern, pop art capturing historical events from time in an original method. Another work by Zerpa "Acefalo A cephalous , or (The Headless one 1987), he parodies accounts of a headless tribe with an arrow-bearing figure whose face is on his chest. In one of his typical anachronisms , Zerpa includes
399-533: Was greatly influenced by Theodor de Bry , a Flemish designer, engraver , and printmaker . Zerpa valued de Bry's work that his most recognized series was his interpretation on acrylic painting series called "El Dorado" which was based on the fanciful chronicles and records of European explorers and visually on prints by the Belgium artist. Zerpa deliberately created a secondhand visual account of an already distorted Eurocentric one by borrowing from de Bry; he perpetuated
420-474: Was later supported in a neuroimaging study. The term contrapposto can also be used to refer to multiple figures which are in counter-pose (or opposite pose) to one another. The first known statue to use contrapposto is Kritios Boy , c. 480 BCE, so called because it was once attributed to the sculptor Kritios . It is possible, even likely, that earlier bronze statues had used the technique, but if they did, they have not survived and Kenneth Clark called
441-423: Was towards historical themes in terms of spatial and temporal shifts was addressed to several Venezuelan artist one of them being Carlos Zerpa. The preoccupation with time seems especially relevant in a country whose historical development does not go back much before the eighteenth century. Carlos Zerpa and Miguel von Dangel chose as their referent the period of the discovery of the new world and just prior, through
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