Puri Yáñez Explained

Puri Yáñez
Birth Place:Cartagena, Spain
Nationality:Spanish
Style:Oil painting
Movement:surrealist

Puri Yáñez (born 1936, Cartagena, Spain) is a Spanish-born artist known for her surrealist oil paintings.[1] [2]

Born in 1936 in Cartagena, Spain, and at the age of three she moved with her family to Mexico due to the fall of the Spanish Republic in 1939.[3] [4] She attended the Women's University of Mexico (Universidad Femenina de México) from 1952 to 1955 and at Faculty of Arts and Design (previously named Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas) from 1956 to 1958.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Heller, Jules. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Heller. Nancy G.. Routledge. 1999. 9781135638825. 592. Google Books.
  2. Book: Rogelio Alvarez, José. Enciclopedia de México. 9781564090249. 14. 8125. Google Books.
  3. Book: The Texas Quarterly. University of Texas Press. 1969. 12.
  4. Book: Musacchio, Humberto. Millennia of Mexico. Hoja Casa Editorial. 1999. 9789686565379. 3. 3276.