Between Wars

Beatriz González

1992

An oil on canvas in which Beatriz González sets two stylized, back-to-back figures—one holding a luminous green drum—against a theatrical, twilight stage to suggest a quiet, fraught moment “between wars.”

Flat, saturated colors and heavy curtains frame a teal stage and a thin yellow horizon while the neon-green circle of the drum and the simplified brown bodies create a hush of tension and ritualized stillness.

Working within Latin American modernism and a practice of political memory, González turns national conflict into intimate, symbolic tableau, showing how everyday gestures and objects can hold historical and emotional weight.

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Art Terms

Oil paint Canvas Painting Figurative Contemporary art Ritual Symbolism Investigating identity

Exhibitions

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

1967

Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art

1940

Committed to Print

1988

Modern Cuban Painters

1944