Julio Larraz
Bio
Julio Fernández Larraz (Cuban, born March 12, 1944) is a painter best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life in the Caribbean. Born in Havana, he fled to the United States in 1961. In 1964, he moved to New York and began drawing political caricatures that were published by The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other newspapers. In the 1970s he began also to paint, and changed his signature to Julio Larraz.
Statement
The topics that draw Julio Larraz’s attention are varied. Though one of them would seem to be the critique of consumerist society, women in furs getting off a light plane,others in bikinis enjoying themselves on a yacht, men smoking cigars, etc., implying are lent less criticism to consumerist and frivolous contemporary society, this is not the case. Larraz looks for a window and transforms the images into fragments of the observed, or remembered, reality, which he details without being hyper-realist, representing it with abundant descriptions. His is a phenomenological response to a representational fact of pictorial character.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
