Leonor Anthony

About Artist:

Leonor Anthony is an Expressionist artist born in Havana, Cuba. Leonor immigrated with her family to the United States as a very young child. Today, she resides and works in Miami, Florida. Her preferred mediums are oil on canvas, charcoal drawings, digital art, photography and mixed media.The imagery of her art is crafted with unprecedented assertiveness, a combination of refined, complex and loose brush strokes, characterized by violently expressive color and jarring compositions that elicit vivid emotional reactions. Leonor’s work is collected and exhibited internationally. It has been showcased in Asia at the “Seoul Open Art Fair” in Seoul, Korea 2013 & 2014 and the “Beijing International Art Exposition” in China 2012 and 2013. In Europe at Le Carrousel Du Louvre 2014, Gallerie La Spirale in Liege, Belgium 2013 & 2014 and Gallerie Thullier in Paris 2014. In the United States her works have been featured in Red Dot Art Fair & Scope Art Fair, Art Basel Week 2013, in Washington, DC at the National League of American Pen Women, “Art Takes Miami at Art Basel” 2012, and the Linus Gallery in California among others. Her work is part of the Florida International University’s permanent collection exhibited at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Leonor was given the prestigious title of Artist in Residence of the Florida International University’s Honors College.

About Artwork:

After seeing an original photograph of the events that happened in the Basque town of Gernika in Northern Spain at the onset of WWII, I was touched and inspired to create my won version of the bombings. Being of basque origins myself, I wanted to portray the feeling of being there in person, as a small child, as the bombs came down all around me. I left my soul in this painting. I had nothing left when I was done. It was proudly displayed at the entrance of the Beijing International Art Fair in 2013.