On his trip to the United States, Javier Milei He received a gift painting from an Argentine plastic artist that had gone viral weeks before due to its resemblance to Napoleon. Fairly, the author of the work, Fabián Pérez, spoke with Radio Miter and told what that meeting with the president was like.
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Fabián went to the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, in Los Angeles, where the Argentine president was accompanied by his sister, Karina Milei, and his staff. “The meeting was formidable, it gave me a lot of time, it took me between 20 and 30 minutes,” he began to say.
It is worth noting that Javier Milei was one of those in charge of making the painting viral through his account. instagram and of x. “He let me know that he loved the painting. When she saw him, he extended those words to me, He told me that from the first moment he loved that painting and that he wanted a copy to have with him.“, proudly stated the painter who has lived in the US for 27 years.
What did Javier Milei like most about his painting?
Pérez revealed that the president gave him praise regarding some details with which he painted it. “He liked everything, I explained perfectly what the painting meant. He and his assistants commented there that they believed that of all the paintings he had of himself, that face was the one he liked the most of all“, held.
The representative of La Libertad Avanza also highlighted the inclusion of Juan Bautista Alberdi at his side. “Something that he liked was the portrait that I put to his right of Alberdi for his inspiration and being accompanied by the Argentine flag in the painting was something that he really liked.”he added.
The Argentine artist who gave the Napoleonic painting to Javier Milei gave details of their meeting: “It exceeded my expectations”
The work can currently be seen in his gallery in Los Angeles, although you will only be able to see copies, since the original is in the hands of the portrayed leader. “According to him, He told me that he was going to place it in the Quinta de Olivos, but the truth is that I don’t know. For me, hang it and put it in the place where it gives you the most satisfaction,” she indicated.
The painting will enter his collection of “Living Legends” due to the influence it is having in the country. “I think he is from that group because it seems to me that he is a person who has very clear ideas, he says things that are not politically correct, but that is precisely what led people to vote for him,” he suggested.
Why did you choose Napoleon to portray Javier Milei?
Regarding his choice of the Emperor of the French, Fabián explained: “I chose Napoleon because I always liked him, because he was a character that I read a lot and I like his strategy, I think he was a genius in a lot of things and the thing similar to Milei is that I think he is also a good strategist”.
He even revealed that he analyzed the libertarian to characterize him with a character of this magnitude: “I didn’t know if he was going to like Napoleon or not, I imagined from the way he combs his hair, his sideburns, how he expresses himself or writes, I realized that he would have liked to be from another time. That’s why I made a mix of two characters.”
The Argentine artist who gave the Napoleonic painting to Javier Milei gave details of their meeting: “It exceeded my expectations”
On the other hand, he clarified the similarity there was with the painting “Napoleon abdicating at Fontainebleau” by Paul Delaroche in 1846, which represents the emperor with a dejected gesture after the fall of Paris in April 1814 to the armies of Austria, Russia and Prussia.
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“I couldn’t paint it from there because the information found there is very poor, in black and white and done as a painting, a bit cartoonish,” said the man born in Campana to deny that it was based on that situation.
He insisted that he was based on a poster for the Oscar-nominated film by Joaquín Phoenix starring Napoleon, both because of its ease of drawing and because it was a trend at the time. “ANDThere was a photo that was becoming very well known all over the world and it seemed to me that people would immediately recognize that it was Napoleon.”, he stressed.
The criticism that Fabián Pérez had for portraying Javier Milei
When Fabián published the photo of the libertarian painting, several people commented against this work, so the Argentine artist analyzed: “This criticism is very emotional, it comes from a political and emotional part that is not because people are experts in art, but They simply criticize because they don’t like the character I painted”.
However, he states that he is “happy” because he achieved what he was looking for and noted: “It exceeded my expectations, because good or bad it did not go unnoticed and that is what a visual artist looks for in visual art, that people who look at a painting do not forget it and it remains stuck in their heads.”
What other figures did Fabián Pérez paint and meet: Pope Francis, Diego Maradona and Ángel Di María
The Argentine artist who gave the Napoleonic painting to Javier Milei gave details of their meeting: “It exceeded my expectations”
On his website, various figures appear that he portrays and he was also pleased to give him his own works in person:
- Diego Maradona
- Angel Di Maria
- Sergio Kun Aguero
- Pope Francisco
- Al Pacino
- Mike Tyson
- Sylvester Stallone
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
- pitbull
- Rafael Nadal.
