Raquel Lazaro (1917-) Cuban. Oil on Canvas. Measure 40"in H x 30"in W. No frame. Raquel Lazaro. Raquel was born in Havana in 1917. Raquel Lazaro's educational career in Cuba was distinguished by prudence, discipline, and enthusiasm. The instruction then offered by the old Academy of San Alejandro-defective and lax sin ce the institution's beginnings -was hopelessly outdated and adverse to freedom of expression. nevertheless, like a plant struggling for survival against a hostile environment, Raquel decided to extract from it all that could possibly be of benefit. Young people of spirit are not wont to put up with narrow-mindedness and lack of generosity, and the Academy has had a long history of student rebellion. Raquel Lazaro is one of those who hold that the achievement of artistic maturity and the development of a language of one's own must spring from the accomplishment of the generation that went bef ore. The light, the heat, and the tropical sky of Miami help Raquel Lazaro to recreate, in her mind's eye, the color and the spirit of Cuba. Persistent in effort, constant in advance, she strives to enlarge ever more the horizon of her aesthetic sensiti vity. Lazaro participated in group shows in Havana as early as 1956, and her work has been well received at collective exhibitions in the Miami area In 1978 several of her compositions figured in a presentation at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin Ameri ca in Washington, D.C.

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