Argentinian born artist Fabian Perez is known for painting pictures of slightly shady-looking gentlemen and 'ladies of the night'. His inspiration for creating these pictures are due to his father, he says, who owned brothels and was constantly being chased by the police.
Despite this, his images are romantic, the subjects are beautiful, and Perez paints them with equal parts of awe and respect. Therefore, you would never think that the ladies in his art are supposed to be so-called 'ladies of the night'.
At the age of 16 he lost his mother, and at 19 his father too, loneliness led him to the pursuit of self knowledge through martial arts, and through this search he met the second great influential figure of his life who was to become his Karate master. His exceptional skill at Karate introduced discipline into a life which had been ruled by passion and instinct, and encouraged Fabian to take charge of his own future. He decided to leave Argentina and travelled around Brazil, Italy and Japan before settling in Los Angeles in Spring 2001. It was here that his work was noticed by the official artistic establishment, and before long he was holding sell out exhibitions and publishing his work to great critical acclaim.
Although he admires various schools of art including the Impressionists, Fabian is reluctant to have his work categorised. It is perhaps best to refer to his own description - Emotionalism - which best sums up his uniquely expressive style. Having experimented extensively with watercolour, tempura and acrylics he settled some years ago on oils as his preferred medium, as he believes they allow him to achieve the atmosphere of compressed energy and passion within his work, and allows his beautifully described figures to live and breath on the canvas.
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