Max Euceda
Max Euceda
Max Euceda (Honduras; 1891 -1987) was a Honduran painter and draftsman with a long career; his painting was naturalistic.
He has painted portraits of great expressiveness.
His landscapes, in some cases, bring him closer to Impressionism.[2]
Career
Max Euceda was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1891 and died there in 1987. He learned the art of drawing and painting in a self-taught way; He always did it spontaneously until he was 30 years old when, in 1921, the Spanish Embassy in Honduras organized a competition to award a scholarship to study painting in Madrid and Euceda won the award[3].
His work was always attached to Realism. The pictures of him, mainly the portraits, are proof of this. Even in his facet as a teacher in the drawing area, he upheld the principle of making a rigorous copy of the details[3].
The colors used in this type of work are vivid, without being whole, and the brushstroke of it is continuous, smooth, so that it disappears from the canvas.
The contrasts of light and shadow are treated in any case as an element intentionally managed by the artist to achieve certain effects.
All the features are noticeable in the painting entitled "The Painter's Wife", where naturalism reaches the highest expressive levels.[3]
However, Max Euceda also painted landscapes using a less naturalistic technique, close to what we could call a romantic impressionism.
The reasons for his inspiration were the corners of Tegucigalpa, works where he reflected a certain longing.
In these works he used preferably blue, pink and brown tones, to achieve the desired effect.
Notable in this field are his paintings "La Merced" and "El Puente Mallol"[3].