Ximena Cristi

Lucía Ximena Cristi Moreno (December 13, 1920 – July 21, 2022) was a Chilean post-impressionist and figurative expressionist painter.

[4] Cristi became part of the "generación de 1940" ("generation of 1940"), an artistic movement in Chile that also included Francisco Otta, Israel Roa [es], Aída Poblete, Ernesto Barreda, and Carlos Pedraza.

This group, which was influenced by the likes of Pablo Burchard, Camilo Mori, and Luis Oyarzún, practiced a style similar to fauvism.

[1] In 1953, she joined with Matilde Pérez, Aída Poblete, Sergio Montecinos, and Ramón Vergara to form the "Grupo de los cinco" ("Group of Five").

This group, which stemmed from a joint exhibition that the artists staged at the Chilean-French Cultural Institute, reflected an inconformity with the traditional mediums of pictorial representation.