Emma Reyes

$15.00 at High Museum of Art.

Reyes’ lush and colorful paintings, featuring human beings in harmony with nature, disavow an anthropocentric, Eurocentric worldview A self-taught artist, Emma Reyes (1913–2003) made an impression on such luminaries as Lola Álvarez Bravo, Gabriel García Márquez, Frida Kahlo, André Lhote, Enrico Prampolini and Diego Rivera during her nomadic life. This first publication on her artwork is an introductory overview to the unique practice she developed from the mid-1940s to the early 2000s in Argentina, Mexico…