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A.Vito Peralta
A.Vito Peralta is primarily a figurative painter who (as of 2010) is still working on an undergraduate arts program at Cal State San Bernardino.
In his work he explores facial expressions, seeking in them what the unspoken visual language has to communicate. The eyes, the lines, the mouth and every feature of a person’s face are carved by past events. The artist must delve into the layers below, searching for the stories which have creased the brow or led to the smile and then reveal those stories in paint. The work must capture every minutely-observed detail of character discovered by the artist about his subject.
Vito paints his subjects against plain backgrounds allowing the strong tones which he uses in a singular manner to focus the viewer’s attention on the face. He has a distinctive use of light and shade to illuminate certain features, sometimes the forehead, sometimes the ridge of the nose or the chin; the highlighting suggests a particular scrutiny of the part of the artist to accentuate focus. No supplementary information about the subject is added through background content –all we need to know is contained solely within the facial expression.
Figurative artists constantly strive to achieve new meaning to portraiture; to test the implication that infinite potential originates with the artist to see beyond the surface, to ‘understand’ some inner truth about his subject and his own self. Portraiture more than any other form of art that allows an artist to express himself as opposed to creating inflexibly realistic representations of the real world. It is his chance to reveal his own aesthetic through visual analysis of another being.
“I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.” – Lucian Freud.
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist