Lucinda Urrusti (1929 – 25 March 2023) was a Spanish-born Mexican artist, whose work has gained fame not only from the writing of art critics, but also by poets and writers from other fields, such as Carlos Fuentes.
Urrustia was a part of Mexico’s Generación de la Ruptura, a group of artists that broke with the dominant Mexican muralism of the first half of the 20th century with most of her work classed as Impressionism and/or abstract.
[1] She took classes informally at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" starting in 1948, such as drawing of nudes with Jesús Guerrero Galván, oil painting with Agustín Lazo and fresco work with Federico Cantú for three years.
Her early work was judged by art historian Justino Fernández to be equal to that of better known artists such as Isabel Villaseñor, María Izquierdo, Cordelia Urueta, Lola Cueto and others.
[9] Over her career, her work has attracted the attention of not only art critics but poets and other writers, such as Juan García Ponce, Salvador Elizondo and Alí Chumacero.
She often combines changing colors with geometric forms as a kind of still life along with depictions of various animals, common objects and human figures.
She often combines changing colors with geometric forms as a kind of still life along with depictions of various animals, common objects and human figures.
[1][3] Her painting has been described by art critics such as Margarita Nelken, Antonio Rodríguez and Ceferino Palencia as having an intimacy with the role of light prominent in conveying emotion.
[7][9] Urrusti experimented with different materials and techniques such as wood, paper, ceramics, dried leaves and flowers to add texture to her paintings.