Onofre Jarpa Labra . Chilean painter. Considered one of the greatest landscape painters in Chile , he developed an important teaching and dissemination work of art and received numerous awards throughout his artistic career, distinguishing himself among the personalities of his time for his benevolent and serene character and for his peaceful life. , influenced by the force of its religiosity. Still lifes, portraits and seascapes are among his oil paintings.
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Death
- 2 Awards
- 3 Paintings
- 4 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He was born in the Villa de Alhué on June 12 , 1849 . Son of Francisco Jarpa and Genoveva Labra.
At the age of 15 he began artistic studies under the lessons of Salustio Carmona . In 1867 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts where his teachers Cicarelli and Kirchbach were. He had as a companion Pedro Lira for whom he felt great admiration.
Jarpa excelled especially in the cultivation of landscapes, with a marked affinity to the lyricism of Antonio Smith , the first landscape master by whom he felt early stimulated and whose workshop he frequented at the beginning of his artistic career.
In 1881 he was retired by the government to continue his studies in Europe . In Spain he took classes with Francisco Pradilla , who, faithful to the dominant trend in Spain at that time, cultivated the historical genre. In Italy he frequented the studio of Marco Calderini , a Piedmontese painter and landscape painter.
In his landscapes he demonstrated true creative ability. Later his work was oriented towards the outside world devoid of affective resonances, respecting the natural perception of objects.
He went from a romantic style to a naturalism and later took on some aspects of the impressionist trend by recognizing the value of textures and stains. However, he always maintained a very personal style.
In “Quebrada de Brasil ” he revealed a mysterious and suggestive landscape, full of romantic reminiscences. ” Palmas de Oca ” was part of the artist’s realistic period, his romanticism was left behind, he no longer sought to romanticize the landscape, but to find its poetic values in the detailed study of its elements.
The invoice gained in agility, the color became more spontaneous and natural. When visualizing nature, he used color in close relationship with the physical color quality of the real object, approaching almost exclusively through the sensory path, by the stimulus that the presence of natural fact provokes in the senses, which dominates and imposes on the painter its own qualities of shape, color, density, weight and atmosphere .
He knew how to capture the Chilean landscape with extraordinary poetry as in the case of “Paseo a la Laguna de Aculeo” and in the aforementioned “Palmas de Oca”.
During the 91 years he lived, he witnessed many of the most intense mutations in art history such as Impressionism , Fauvism , Cubism and Surrealism , however, his works were executed with a very personal style, remaining linked to tradition.
Death
This Chilean painter died in Santiago on February 15 , 1940 .
