I have a passion for art, I paint for living, I live for painting. I like to experiment with lights, colors, volumes and textures. I am what could be call, a "Non confortmist". I always see plenty of room for exploration and improvement.
I truly don't know if there is a part of me in each painting, or if each painting is becoming part of me. I'm now experiencing a joyful renaissance! A noticeable change in style sublimation, and I love it! My best art is still to be unveiled.
Making Art is a life long process, it's an exciting journey. It is done in a serial fashion. That is, every new piece is built upon the experience of previous ones. So while I describe my art philosophy, there are many conceptual layers built in it.
I try to express in my work, what I believe to be the basic principles of Art: composition, contrast, color, light, movement, texture and lots of creativity. My work draws from the beauty, subtleties and good emotions of life, not from controversy and calamity. I like to be positive, rather than expressing the "fashionable negativism" to please the taste of some so called "Cutting edge" Art connaisseurs . I don't politicize my art. I simply share it and teach it.
To me, light is a must, color is emotion; texture and movement are executional languages; and creativity is my signature. I like to create my pieces with a strong presence of creativity and unique personality. I exercise the right to select, add, omit, exaggerate and distort as I see fit, so I can sincerely call the work: different, memorable, "mine".
Alberto Cruz -The artist
Cotemporary, Modern, Expressive Abstract ?... We could say simply: Unique.
Alberto's artistic taste and visual sophistication, coupled with the rich movement and color mastery that becomes obvious in his art, have earned him recognition and his place in reputable private and public art collections in the US and abroad.
With expressive use of mixed and primary colors, modern looking abstracted women and unique execution, Alberto has created an exceptional style that is undeniably his. Alberto's work reflects both charm, warmth, and his undisputed creativity. Alberto's Art stands high and alone. How could we define his style in one word? Unique.
As an artist, Alberto Cruz' evolution has been typical of a painter who builds on the best from the different stages of his work.
Cruz began painting landscapes and seascapes with his special touch of creativity. His early landscapes were executed in a unique type of pointillism, that veered from the rules of divisionism that pointillists Seurat and de la Croix followed.
Not content with his executions and trying to sublimate the landscape. Cruz used much softer colors and concentrated them on that part of the scene he wanted to recreate, vanishing the colors in a pleasant gradation that ended in pure white. His style soon won him the acclaim of the best known pointillist in Venezuela, where he lived from 1965 to 1978. In 1976, Alberto was commissioned by Alicia Pietri de Caldera, then Venezuela's First Lady, to paint an "Araguaney in bloom" (National tree), to be hung in one of the conference rooms of the Presidential House in Miraflores.
Guided by his innovative spirit, Cruz moved beyond "Nature" reproductions and neo-impressionism and embraced the hyperrealism. Tired of painting landscapes and vibrating seascapes, he started painting real life as found on the polluted grounds of a poorly maintained park or deteriorated walls of uninhabited houses. After a few years of crude hyperrealism, Alberto started to notice his themes were being taken over by photographers who exploited them to a point considered as "too artistically abused".
At this point, and inspired by Dali's strange sense of humor, Alberto turned his hyperrealism into neo-surrealism.
After a few years of this creative period, and again driven by his non conformist personality, he sketched his first "textured woman". Inspired by Gustav Klimt's delicate use of textures, Alberto developed his own collection of exquisite textures and patterns, and Alberto's new unique Art look was born. His attractive work shows women in long textured robes, surrounded by everyday elements and by abstract shapes executed in a mix of tertiary and primary colors and magnificently brush-executed multi-color gradations.
Although still at an early stage, Alberto's women theme has captured the soul of the artist and of many art lovers from the Florida Panhandle, all the way to New Orleans, and now down to Southwest Florida where he resides.
Today, Alberto's Art clearly displays the pronounced creativity, good taste for colors and uniqueness that have always been his trademark. We have not heard the last from him yet. Alberto is about to launch an extremely innovative concept of his of displaying art.