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Antonia Eiriz exhibition at Cernuda Arte as part of the 100 Years of Creations by 20 Women Artists (1922 to 2022) show.
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“She taught me to see.
Antonia knew how to see
in painting,
how to project life.”
-Tomás Sánchez
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Three eerie compositions in which the subjects become lost within the haunting swirls of the brushstrokes.
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Turbulent Impulses
(Impulsos Turbulentos), ca 1965
oil on metal laid down on wood
18 x 13 3/4 inches
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
My Rebellion
(Mi Rebelión), ca 1965
oil on metal laid down on wood
18 1/4 x 14 inches
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Internal Struggle
(Lucha Interior), 1965
oil on metal laid down on wood
18 1/4 x 14 inches
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Three phenomenal paintings, all different in color and technique, demonstrating the artist's unique expressive style and use of undefined forms.
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Havana Cathedral
(Catedral de La Habana), ca 1959
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
23 3/4 x 19 inches
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Scream
(Grito), ca 1965
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
28 7/8 x 23 1/8 inches
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“By the end of 1968 Eiriz stopped painting, and by 1969 she resigned from teaching at Cubanacan art school. Her paintings were seen as conflictive and defeatist by the Revolution’s cultural establishment… She stated ‘if my painting is so problematic, I will stop painting, and it will be their loss.’”
- Professor Alejandro Anreus, Ph. D
Art Journal, Vol. 63, Fall 2004, page 13.
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Figures
(Figuras), ca 1965
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
35 x 31 1/4 inches
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Four mixed media works by the artist on display, emphasizing the remarkable consistency within her artistic executions.
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Tumbler
(Saltimbanqui), ca 1964
mixed media on heavy paper
34 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Untitled [The Voters]
(Sin Título [Los Votantes]), ca 1963
ink and mixed media on heavy paper
laid down on canvas
28 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Aquelarre
(Aquelarre), 1960
ink on paper
22 1/2 x 28 inches
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Two parallel compositions comparing the artist's looser brushstrokes to her more controlled, detailed work.
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“Antonia Eiriz was one of the leading artists of the 1960’s generation in Cuba and a myth in her own time… her 1960’s images are outbursts of rage at the human condition in the best modern tradition of Francisco Goya, James Ensor and Francis Bacon. The violence and drama of her works signify not only a generalized tragic view of humanity, they symbolize the uncertain time and place in which Eiriz lived.”
- Professor Juan A. Martínez, Ph.D
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Figures
(Figuras), ca 1965
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
35 1/2 x 30 inches
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Antonia Eiriz (1929 - 1995)
Demonstration
(Demostración), ca 1960
mixed media on heavy paper laid down on board
30 x 25 1/4 inches
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Antonia's range of techniques create works that are as stunning as they are disturbing.
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A composition of four additional works by the expressionist master, Antonia Eiriz.
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Exhibition catalog for Antonia Eiriz: Tribute to a Legend, Museum of Art, Florida International University,
Fort Lauderdale, FL, September - November 1995.
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Exhibition catalog for Antonia Eiriz: A Painter and her Audience, MDC Museum of Art + Design Freedom Tower
at Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, September - November 2013.
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