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Sept. 9: Wifredo Lam was a Cuban-born artist, best known for his distinctive style and exploration of Afro- Cuban visual culture. His work challenged assumptions about non-European art. Having pursued a successful career within avant-garde circles on both sides of the Atlantic, he is considered a truly innovative artist. His art is the last tarot of surrealism and a tropical wonder of modern painting, an act of decolonization not in a physical sense, but in a mental one. Sept. 16: Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican artist, whose works combine pre-Columbian aesthetics, European modernist experimentation and personal narrative into a distinctly Mexican figurative abstraction. Embedded with distinctly Mexican roots, both in color and in subject, his art is ultimately a response to universal and not temporal matters. His painting can be stark or lyrical, bawdy or extraordinarily delicate, allegorically elaborate or a feast of music and nature. Sept. 23: Carlos Cruz-Diez is a Venezuelan master of color and line, adept at creating fluid, kinetic, optical, participatory visual experiences. His work has established him as one of the key thinkers in the realm of color. He has contributed to a new way of understanding color phenomena and its perceptual universe through interaction with the viewer. Through his art, color becomes an autonomous, evolving reality, which develops in real time and space, devoid of anecdotes. Mondays 9/9, 9/16, & 9/23 12:30 – 2:00 pm $50 $20 Each Armando Droulers is an art historian, lecturer and educator. He studied at Bard College, La Guardia Academy of Aeronautics, Flight Safety International, Academia de Arte Federico Brandt, New World School of the Arts and the University of Florida. He lectures on art and culture at universities, schools, museums, galleries, cultural centers, corporate events and cruise ships and organizes international art history tours and art and wine culinary events. Armando has lived and worked in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States. He is a former corporate and airline pilot and speaks fluent English, French and Spanish. Latin American Master’s Series
