Vaeta Zitman

Artist: Vaeta Zitman
Title: Dear Carmen
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 54 in
Date: 2007

Biography information: 

Vaeta Zitman is from Venezuela and has been a full-time painter for the last twelve years. She was trained in Illustration at the Design Institute of Caracas and has since then self taught as a fine artist. Zitman is also the author of a soon to be published childrens book “I wish all your wishes and mine”.

Statement on the work:

My intention is to represent “plenty”, a rural, Latin and tropical abundance.

The subject matter are women with voluptuous bodies, huge afros and generous hands.
Big women with mestizo features, elongated eyes and hazel skins.

The ambiance is created by warm colors and round volumes that take shape in flowers,
ripe fruits and, cloths and backgrounds in patterns that evoke the Creole surroundings
of hot climate.

The composition does not display formal perspective, everything happens almost in the
same plane where the female form takes over most of the format.

This work does not present a specific reality nor realistic figures although my reference
is the real beauty I find in common women.

Background info on the work:

The theme of her work is the female figure. Her current series is titled “Plenty”, in which she portrays women in an abundant state of being, they are big, voluptuous, generous and of serene presence.

Connects to theme and why I chose it: 

I chose this painting because it because it shows a woman in her undergarments just laying down as if she is comfortably thinking or missing someone. I feel this depicts the theme of love because the woman is missing someone she loves, most likely her lover since she is shown in her undergarments.