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before by her professors Colson, Gausachs, Hernández Ortega, and Clara
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Núñez's first solo exhibition appeared in 1963 and received warm praise from local critics. That same year, she joined the Grupo Los Tres (1963–1965) with artists Cándido Bidó (1938–2011) and Lepe (Leopoldo Pérez, 1937), a collective that paid tribute to Grupo Los Cuatro, which had been formed years
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During her years in college, where she studied philosophy, Nuñez joined student-led political movements while, during the military intervention, her brother was killed. Nuñez’s work has run the gamut of artistic styles, from expressionism to abstraction, but the underlying themes remain constant.
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abstract artist whose work spans more than 50 years. Elsa is the daughter of
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Sometimes Nuñez turns outward, toward the social conditions of everyday workers in the
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During the 1980s, Elsa's work expanded "its chromatic richness with an emphasis on shades of blue and earth colors, as well as in the textures that shift between realism and abstraction." Her work appeared in
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in 1961 with her high school diploma. She studied art at the
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