Meet Fabian Perez

We were lucky to catch up with Fabian Perez recently and have shared our conversation below.

FABIAN , thank you so much for joining us. You are such a positive person and it’s something we really admire and so we wanted to start by asking you where you think your optimism comes from?

I am an optimist because I can see that I am living, not that I am dying.
I think God makes the world more beautiful with the wonders of Nature, and an artist’s duty is to make it beautiful through his work. I always choose to show the good side of life with my paintings, because I consider it to be the greatest.
I see adversity as an opportunity to learn, mature and grow.
For the longest time I did not want to define my way of painting, so as to not limit myself, but a few years ago I felt the need to create my own movement, and I called it Neo-Emotionalism. Where the importance of creating with emotion goes beyond the technique used.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I am a professional artist and sculptor from Argentina, living in Los Angeles since 1997.
Many galleries recognized me as one of the most accomplished portrait painters of the 21st century. Of course I leave that comment to the viewer’s decision.
I paint inspired by beauty and I find a lot of beauty when I recreate my view of my parents’ era from my own memory. I remember a really romantic period full of class, manners and values.
My art is composed basically with people, I paint mostly individuals by themselves, using a physical attractiveness to capture the attention of the viewer, but I always try to go beyond that, with the goal of painting a body to portray the soul.
I have a Gallery in Melrose District, open to the public by appointment. At the moment, I am featuring the best seller images of my collection during the course of my career, but the idea is to incorporate more artists by 2025. I am very enthusiastic, and believe that physical galleries are still alive. In a world where the online transaction is the leader, art is still a beauty that you want to appreciate and observe in person.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I believe that life is our opportunity. Many times we lose it in projections, focusing our consciousness in what could happen or in what happened, and “unconsciously” paying the least attention to the present moment. To the kids and students that look forward to making a living through their art. I would like to tell them that most things can be achieved in life with these three qualities: clear goals, discipline and self-confidence. The more of these qualities they can gather, the further they will be able to go.

Do you think it’s better to go all in on our strengths or to try to be more well-rounded by investing effort on improving areas you aren’t as strong in?

For me it is essential to go all in our strengths. I like to paint figures because I consider it more risky and challenging, since it puts in evidence the artist’s ability, and a mistake can ruin a painting that could have been a masterpiece if it is not in complete harmony with the totality of the piece.
At the same time, it helps the viewer in its interpretation and/or critique despite their level of understanding. Like Claude Monet, the great French impressionist painter, and many others, I work in series, focusing for months, sometimes years, on a single subject. The creation of a piece and the practice to paint it more than once takes the image for your masterpiece up to perfection.
That said, in order to bring the human form into perfection you need to practice, repeat, and refine the technique again and again and again, until you became a master.

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