Having painted a number of past presidents and leaders of industry, Victori has had the ear of many successful figures of contemporary American culture. At age 29, Victori emigrated to the United States, speaking virtually no English, and found himself a year later hand-delivering a presidential mural to then president Richard Nixon at the White House. This moment and others like it set him sail on a lifelong journey of studying the dignitaries who rise to the upper echelons of global influence. After five decades of creating his own artistic legacy in pursuit of the truth Victori leads us through his studied insights as to how and why the greatest icons of history came to make their mark. There is wisdom richer than the advice of traditional self-help, or ‘law of attraction’ literature, and in this book Victori takes you on an illustrated journey of what that is by voyaging through the ages’ great ones, their myriad achievements, and a unique philosophy on how to emulate their methods to manifest the life and world you want. This book is for the curious and constantly evolving individual who is interested in expanding their mind through art, introspection, and the one thing that all the greatest have in common.
This visual journey is illustrated through Victori’s portrait work, which spanned much of his adult life, as well as his unique and divergent method of painting called Multiplism — a method that layers what is seen in a single portrait and incites a deeper perception of his paintings’ subjects. Having gazed upon so many during his career, Victori realized that a single instance of time frozen in a portrait hides the multiple moods, emotions, and states of mind concealed behind stationary, fixed expressions. Multiplism reveals the many behind the one, unfolding all possible dimensions of a being in one multi-faceted piece of work. Victori’s advances into Multiplism have brought about paintings such as “The Many Faces of Mona,” in which Da Vinci’s iconic painting is transformed into a multiple-faced version of her former self. Victori began developing this style of art in the 1970s and continues to evolve its meaning and composition, not just through painting but mural and sculpture work as well.
