Painting Poetry

"It pleases me to make poetry with a paint brush, because I am one of those who think the brush speaks when it describes the slender figure of a woman or as its refined strokes simply narrate the wonder that surrounds us," the young artist Andres Diaz told Cubaplus. Diaz is a modern painter who uses his brush to try and perpetuate historical memory for future generations.

From the time he was small he had artistic inclinations, which grew as he did, until he consolidated his vocation at Havana's San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, of which he is a graduate.

Although Diaz has dabbled in landscape, it is the human figure that is both the source of his inspiration and his challenge. "It is not just to achieve a good portrait technically and artistically, but to discover the psychological depth of the person. It is to paint spirits