Lita Cabellut paints larger than life-size portraits of well-known personalities and unknown people. These heads are isolated in the image, timeless and without specific background. Cabellut’s use of lines and colours and her painting techniques are her means of expressing the atmosphere of human emotions. In this sense, her works are more than portraits. They appeal to archetypal and existential human states of being such as sadness, fear, vulnerability and defiance.
In her recent work, Cabellut is concerned with contradictions and the power of art to break down these contradictions. For example, she considers the division between abstract and figurative to be a completely arbitrary classification that limits the view of art. In this work, Cabellut merges street art with art academy.
The artist uses different materials and techniques in which both the pictorial method of the great masters from the past can be recognized as well as the atmosphere of old frescoes. For example, she uses both oil paint and tempera, a paint that can be obtained from the mixture of natural colour pigments with water and egg yolk.