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The Birth of Eros

Zilia Sánchez Domínguez1971

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

At first glance, the work of artist Zilia Sánchez (1934) meets the criteria for classification as Minimalist. Hers is an austere geometry, lacking any adornment, decoration, or complement, and made from the simplest of materials. Yet her works — straddling painting and sculpture — with their soft lines, warm textures, and limpid colors, have a power of allusion, of evocation that refuses to admit any of the self-referentiality or tautology that characterizes most Minimalism.
The delicate sensuality of Sánchez’s work is present in Birth of Eros. Its stylized reliefs, highlighted in soft pink, are voluptuous reminiscences of the human body. This is an idealized landscape of the body, an erotic, imaginative, suggestive geography.

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  • Title: The Birth of Eros
  • Creator: Zilia Sánchez
  • Date Created: 1971
  • Physical Dimensions: 90 11/16 x 114 15/16 x 16 in
  • Credit Line: Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Collection | Gift of the artist
  • Subject Keywords: Minimalism, Sensuality, Human body, Erotic, Suggestive
  • Medium: Acrylic
  • Support: Canvas
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

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