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Fidelio Ponce ,esta obra es un retrato del Dr Mario de Cardenas Pupo ,esta obra esta publicada ,med 64 x 53 cm oleo sobre lienzo .. |
Period: The Vanguard
Fidelio Ponce was born in 1895 in Camaguey and died on February 1949 in Havana, Cuba.
He initiated studies at the San Alejandro Academy from 1913 through 1918, year in which he disappeared until 1923. He moved to a suburb neighborhood where he taught drawing to disadvantaged children and worked in commercial arts.
His first exhibition at the Lyceum became a great success for him. His work Las Beatas was awarded a prize from The National Salon, as well as prizes from The Salon of Modern Art in Havana in 1937. At this time his career was on a roll; he traveled to New York and opened exhibitions in the Delphis Studio. Again, he received first prize for his work Los Nios from the National Salon, and then disappeared until 1940. The Museum of Modern Art in New York obtained his work Mujeres as part of its permanent collection.
Ponce, who had a great personality, was a student of Romaach and his work was influenced by academicism. Today his paintings require restoration. Much of the color has faded and the surfaces are cracked. He never took great care of his work, nor did he know how to, since he never learned methods for preparing the oils adequately. He was obsessed with the color white, which he used to call pintura nacarada in order to project light color from it. He enjoyed Kandinsky's famous words: "...white is a great silence full of possibilities.."
