To bring visibility to female artists. Consuelo Sellers AlbaladejoThe teacher, who is doing research to answer the question of whether women artists exist and have always existed, presents the biography of Alicante painter Elena Verdes Karadağ on Tuesday, December 12 at 19.00. at the Alicante Municipal Art Center.
Your commitment and obligation ensuring the visibility of women through arts-related research It enabled him to research in depth the life and works of the Alicante painter, who was unknown to a large part of the population.
Thus according to Consuelo Sellers. Elena Verdes Montenegro was a Spanish painter born in Alicante in 1904. His father was politician and professor José Verdes Montenegro, who served at the Jorge Juan Institute at the turn of the century and was responsible for bringing socialism to the eastern region.
Elena had an important role in Madrid’s artistic circles at a time when women’s presence was 12%. He exhibited regularly at the Autumn Salons, and in 1930 he joined the direction of the Ateneo de Madrid in Plastic Arts. Her figure and her work set a precedent in Spanish female painting, the most important female figure in Alicante painting. From the first half of the 20th century.
The book is a scientific text and is easy to read. Documented with over 250 references, opening the door for other researchers to continue the work. On its pages we will find unpublished works and graphic documents that will help to get to know him in depth. He went into exile in Mexico after the Civil War, and some of his work and his descendants are there.