Arístides Fernández Vázquez

Born in Güines in 1904. Admitted to San Alejandro Academy when he was twenty one years old, but as all avant-garde painters—among them Victor Manuel, Arche, Domingo Ravenet and others—he distances himself from its rules trying to avoid classical themes to get involved into the Cuban reality. The Tavern, The Washwomen, Portraits of a Family, Portrait of the Artist’s Mothe...