Fidelio ponce de león

Categories : births deaths People from Camagüey 20th-century Cuban painters 20th-century Cuban male artists Male painters.

United States. His paintings are also reminiscent of those of Edvard Munch. Along with Antonio Gattorno , Victor Manuel , Amelia Peláez , and Wifredo Lam , he is considered part of the "Vanguardia" movement in Cuban art ; however, unlike many of his contemporaries he never studied in Europe, and so had comparatively little contact with European modernism. Read Edit View history. Toggle limited content width.

Later in life Ponce de León contracted tuberculosis ; he died in Havana on 19 February Fidelio Ponce de León's style was one of the most singular styles and iconography of his generation. Tools Tools. Wikimedia Commons.

Cuban painter — Camagüey , Cuba. They are tragic images about poverty, sickness, and alienation.

Fidelio Ponce

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Article Talk. Havana , Cuba. Authority control. 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.