Young Witoto | Oil painting on canvas

Description

The oil painting Young Witoto is an original expressionist artwork made by artist Arturo Laime. Original: oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm.

Young Huitoto

This painting unfolds beneath a luminous Amazonian moon, where the figure’s body emerges from the darkness with a sculptural clarity. Broad, confident brushstrokes define the contours of his torso, rendering the skin in shifting accents of warm earth and cool night light. The feathered crown, painted in sharp strokes of blue and white, evokes the ritual adornment characteristic of Huitoto (Witoto) communities of the Peruvian Amazon, while the simple skirt of straw places the figure firmly within a world shaped by forest materials and ancestral customs.

The composition draws the viewer into a moment of poised alertness: the figure stands diagonally across the canvas, his chest illuminated, his profile turned outward as though listening to a distant movement in the jungle. Behind him, the thatched longhouses rise in muted browns and greens, their forms softened by the surrounding vegetation. This interplay between the crisp modelling of the body and the softened architecture heightens the sensation of an individual moment within a vast, living environment.

Within the broader Archaic series, the work continues an exploration of ancestral masculinity—here filtered through the lens of an Amazonian cosmology in which the body is not merely corporeal, but a bearer of lineage, responsibility, and mythic continuity.

About this painting:

Materials: oil on canvas

Frame made from European reforested woods

The painting is stretched and stapled on the reverse on a 0,7″ deep frame with the sides painted Black.

This artwork  comes ready to hang from its own stretcher frame

Farmer Oil on canvas painting is hand signed by the artist on the front, and signed & titled on the back

It Includes a Certificate of Authenticity hand signed and sealed by the artist himself.

Delivered in a secure, protective cardboard packaging.

Created in Germany. Delivered from the Black Forest.

Worldwide Delivery.

Delivery

We aim to deliver our original artwork within:

Germany – 5-10 working days.

Europe – 7-12 working days.

Rest of world – 10-30 working days.

However, due to disruptions caused by the Covid19 pandemic, the schedules offered by DHL may change.

NOTE:

• The size of the artwork on pictures is just referential
• Artwork colours may slightly vary due to photographic lighting sources or monitor settings
• No watermark appears on the artwork