José Perotti

José Luis Perotti Ronzoni (June 8, 1898 – June 22, 1956) was a Chilean artist and educator. His best known works are paintings and sculptures.

Perotti traveled on scholarship to Spain in 1920 to attend the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Some sources say he became director in 1933, He was joined by Antonio Sotomayor, a Bolivian born artist.

Art Perotti's work includes sculptures, paintings, drawings, ceramics, engravings, and enamels on metal, among other media. His drawings and sculptures were generally about the human figure while paintings focused on landscapes. He received the greatest recognition for his work in sculpture. Over the course of his career he experimented with the stylization of anthromorphic figures and use of space as a compositional element. He also used what he called "hollows", perforated volume which uses deliberate voids to allow light to flow through.

He has two stand out awards. He was awarded the first medal in the Sculpture Section of the Salon of 1919. This was for his work The Pariah. Then in 1953 he won the National Prize of Art of Chile. He was the first sculptor to receive the prize.

His art has been publicly displayed throughout Chile, as well as in the United States and Portugal.