Our Tres Grandes: Fidelio Ponce, Carlos Enríquez, and Amelia Peláez

Explore Cuban modernism through three pioneering artists—Fidelio Ponce, Carlos Enríquez & Amelia Peláez—with Dr. Alejandro Anreus.
About this Event

Join us for a lecture by Dr. Alejandro Anreus, a leading scholar of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx art.

Mexican muralism had its Tres Grandes—Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The Cuban vanguardia had its own: Fidelio Ponce, Carlos Enríquez, and Amelia Peláez. What made these three artists distinctly original, profoundly Cuban, and yet universal?

This lecture will explore their lives, work, and historical context, with a particular focus on the “golden decade” of the 1940s, when Cuban art took its place on the world stage.

Image caption: Amelia Peláez, Marpacífico (detail), 1936. Oil on canvas, 29 x 37 ³/₈ inches. Collection Giulio V. Blanc. Courtesy of Lodovico and Margherita Blanc, Miami. Photo: Evelyn Sosa ©Amelia Peláez Foundation.

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