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Amelia
Peláez (1896-1968)
Painter and Ceramist. She was born in Yagüajay, Las Villas, on
January 5, 1896 and died in Havana City on 1968.
Since 1916, he entered San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy, at the
very moment in which the institution was about to celebrate a century
of its foundation and it was ruled by monotonous systems, lacked of
perspectives in the progressive social situation. She remains in this
center up to 1927, receiving an influence from the academic stream
that prevailed there, especially the influence coming from the important
Cuban painter Leopoldo Romañach (1862-1951) who was her professor.
She performed her first exhibition in Havana, 1924, showing her landscaping
vision with an interesting romantic root. In the same year, she entered
The Art Students' League of New York, where she made studies of ancient
and natural drawing. In 1927, traveled to Europe, after visiting several
countries, she finally settled in Paris. She attended the Grande Chaummiere`s
free courses at Superior School of Fine Arts and Louvre's school.
An exhibition at Zac Galleries, Paris opened the doors for her at
public scene and she was ,in a sudden, granted with the French critic`s
praise, appearing since then glimmers of what was a definitive hallmark
in his work: ''still life''. She also attended a course by the famous
Russian painter Alexandra Exter.
She returned to Cuba
in 1934. From that moment on, she settled in a house from the
habanero neighbourhood of Lawton, where she enterely consecrated
her life to the art.
In 1937 she served as professor of the Experimental Essay of
Free Studies for Painters and Sculptors; in 1945, she teached
drawing in a public school in Cerro, Havana.
She garnered various prizes in national salons and illustrated
a lot of books.
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Around the year of 1950, she started the practicing of ceramics
at an atelier of Santiago de las Vegas, Havana. Amelia also made
murales at facades of public buildings, such as murales of ceramics
at Ministerio del Interior, at the Square of the Revolution and
on Habana Libre Hotel. The murales placed at José Miguel
Gómez school in Havana, Escuela Normal in Santa Clara and
the moveable mural of El Caney, in the oriental part of the island,
belong also to this artist. In 1968, she received National
Order of 30 years devoted to Art.
Artwork available in our Painting
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