Fidelio Ponce de León
Fidelio Ponce de León | |
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Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" | |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | "Vanguardia" |
Fidelio Ponce de León (24 January 1895
Style
Fidelio Ponce de León's style was one of the most singular styles and iconography of his generation.[3] His paintings such as La Familia ("The Family") and Niños ("Children", 1938), reflect Cuban society of the 1930s, and offer a contrasting view to the idealized vision seen in the art of some of the other artists. They are tragic images about poverty, sickness, and alienation. Even when painting children in the midst of nature, as in Niños, a subject long associated with beauty and hope, his treatment of the landscape and the children's facial expressions suggest aridness and sadness. Ponce's desperate economic situation and unruly life matched the general socioeconomic situation of Cuba in the 1930s, and thus his paintings’ expressions of doom transcend the personal and may be said to symbolize the national mood of that time.[3]
Notes and references
Bibliography
- Juan Martínez. Cuban Art and National Identity. Florida: University Press Florida, 1994.
- Veerle Poupeye. Caribbean Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
- (in Spanish) Juan Sánchez. Fidelio Ponce. Ciudad de La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1985.
External links
- Article "Fidelio Ponce: ethics, passion and creation" Archived 2012-11-08 at the Wayback Machine by Mabel Guerra García taken from The Prisma. (20 February 2011)
- Biography at Cernuda Arte.
- (in Spanish) Brief presentation of his life and work on the Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana's website.
- (in Spanish) "Fidelio Ponce de León" article at eumed.net.