Amelia
Pelaez
A pioneer among Latin American modernists, Cuban artist Amelia Pelaez was highly influential in creating a style that broke from the traditional styles of painting dictated by Havana’s conservative San Alejandro Academy. Her highly personal and original interpretation or architectural and decorative elements associated with the colonial period grounds her work in a Cuban cultural context. Her use of a heavy black line serves to give the tones of her compositions a distinctive brilliance. Although partial to still lifes, especially those of tropical flowers, like the Hibiscus, Pelaez also represented human figure.
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