“I only paint when I feel like it. I use a model, whom I like to let loose, to surprise them in their most natural expression. I believe that, in painting, the subject is just a pretext for what one wants to say. However, I am particularly drawn to portraiture, and conversely, I am not drawn to landscapes. I need to interact with the model, to get to know them emotionally in order to capture them more effectively. I think my most successful portraits are of people I have known for a long time.”
In the mid-1940s, de la Vega He begins his artistic journey in a autodidact, alternating his incipient pictorial production with his studies at the Faculty Architecture. Her first contacts with the discipline occurred under the influence of his father and in the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts, where he begins to explore drawing from a live model.
This initial stage is characterized by direct figuration and a deep psychological observation of the subject, elements that They define the period of Formation of the Works of Jorge de la Vega. In these pieces, the artist seeks to capture the human essence before its transition to geometric synthesis and the subsequent break of the sixties.
