Luis cruz azaceta bio

Cuban-American painter (born 1942)

Luis Cruz Azaceta (born April 5, 1942) is a Cuban-American painter.

Azateca has been painting and drawing since the late 1970s.

In usually large-format works executed with expressive colors, Cruz Azaceta has dealt with themes of urban violence, personal isolation in a large and overcrowded city, the conditions created by mismanaged government, the abuses and oppression of dictatorships, and in a number of works done in the late 1980s, the ravages of AIDS.^[1]

Early life and work

Luis Cruz Azaceta was born in Havana, Cuba.

As a teenager, he witnessed many acts of violence on the streets of Havana: bombs in stores, cinemas and theaters, shoot-outs, arrests, and torture of citizens by Batista secret police. In 1959, the Cuban revolution brought jubilation and celebration when Castro promised to restore Cuba's constitution and free elections.

Months later, executions began and businesses were confiscated, wit