Elsa Plaza

Elsa Plaza

Argentine, Works and Lives in Barcelona, Spain

Elsa is a writer, historian, University lecturer and illustrator, strongly associated with the feminism topics. Her artwork transmits the ironic attitude towards the stereotypical roles of men and women in the traditional society and propagates equality of rights, diversity of selfexpression and appearance.

This image is a part of her series “My Harems”, where Elsa dignifies women who look far from the accepted beauty paragons: she pictures them attractive, divine and comfortable with their corpulent shapes. Her expressionistic use of colour and lines resonate with the style of the American portraitist Alice Neel and the German painters Otto Dix and Paula Modersohn-Becker.