Alice Guillermo wrote in 2002: “Ronald Ventura takes a close look at the male nude and finds in it drama and grace.”
The excellency of the human form and anatomy. Only Ronald Ventura has the exceptional ability to execute such form. Although he also paints the female nude, the Contemporary Master prefers to revere the male anatomy — which he considers a highly complex subject — to break the existing residual taboo.
Painting a man in the middle of agony and sexual frustration, Ventura’s style in this work is characterized by painstaking detail, every edge shadowed, and every prominent muscle and bone accentuated to bestow the unidentified man with life. Indeed, the artwork inheres an artistic conviction that produces a thoughtful, environing mood, an emphatic allure that stirs the mind.