Turbay y Camacho Leyva (Turbay and Camacho Leyva)

Beatriz González

1980

Beatriz González rendered in pencil a spare study of two men exchanging a small object, aiming to strip a public or political moment down to its human gesture.

What strikes you is the almost spectral economy of pale graphite—delicate contours floating in a vast white field so that the tiny hand-to-hand transfer becomes the drawing's emotional and visual focus.

By reducing headline events to modest, intimate line drawings, González challenged sensational imagery and helped forge a socially engaged vernacular in Latin American art that made politics legible through everyday gestures.

Palette

Art Terms

Drawing Pencil Figurative Contemporary art Figure/ground relationship Monochrome

Exhibitions

Modern Cuban Painters

1944

Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection

1967

Committed to Print

1988

Mexican Art

1978