User:Megalibrarygirl/Nela Arias-Mission
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Nela Arias-Mission (born 1925) is a Cuban artist known for her paintings in the Abstract Expressionist style.
Biography
[edit]Arias-Mission was born in Havana, Cuba.
She studied at Traphagens and Parsons in New York.
She studied at the Hans Hofmann School in New York
Art
[edit]Her art is very much a product of the Hans Hofmann school of painting.[1]
Quotes
[edit]"I refuse to analyze my painting. I cannot paint if I think. I cannot preconceive a painting. I cannot paint. I only know by intensities. Passion is the source of understanding. I absorbe the world around me like a sponge--light, passions, personalities, smells. Before I can paint, I must empty myself totally, not thinking or imagining so that I can be used as an instrument, a channel. The purpose of my work is love."[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Henkes, Robert (1999). Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 12–18. ISBN 0786405198.
External links
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