Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995) Cuban
Mixed Media on Paper
Measure 28"in H x 22"in W. No Frame

Biography: Antonia Eiriz studied at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana, from which she graduated in 1957. In 1954, in defiance of the institutions academism, she enrolled in the Grupo de los once [The Eleven], whose members rejected cubanity and the picturesque style of the first modernists, in favour of a more abstract language with expressionist overtones. In 1959, the Cuban art world welcomed Fidel Castro revolution with hope, initiating a short period of free and intense cultural activity. The painter produced most of her work during the 60s, giving up its abstract aspect while maintaining an expressionist approach. As a central figure of Cuban New Figuration, she was invited to the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1961. The monstrous figures that populate her large paintings and drawings particularly the ones she made for the critical review Lunes convey a tragic vision of humanity, a reflection of her increasing disappointment in the new regime. Her most famous work is an Annunciation (1963), in which a woman sitting at her sewing machine recoils in terror upon seeing an apparition none other than the angel of death.

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