The City Council organizes a conference on the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, famous for her Art Deco portraits and nudes.

The lecture will be given by the teacher of the Municipal Drawing and Painting Workshop, Rocío Garín, and will take place on Tuesday, March 10, at 8:00 p.m., at the Library of Contemporary Cultures. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.

The Estepona City Council informs that next Tuesday, March 10, at 20:00 pm, will be held at the Library of Contemporary Cultures of the Mirador del Carmen the conference ‘Tamara de Lempicka, by the teacher of the Drawing and Painting Workshop of the municipal delegation of Culture, Rocio Garin.

The speaker will speak about the figure of the Polish artist Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska, known as Tamara de Lempicka (Warsaw, Poland, May 16, 1898 – Cuernavaca, Mexico, March 18, 1980), a painter who became famous in Europe, especially in France and the United States, with her portraits and nudes in Art Deco style, of which she was the greatest exponent.

In an era of new freedoms, she knew how to break many rules that proved to be useless after the First World War. Mother, wife, artist, and influencer, she was an amazing woman who knew how to face very complicated situations and make a place for herself in the artistic sphere. She fled the Bolshevik revolution and lived in Paris, New York and Hollywood, making luxury her way of life.

The activity, with free admission until full capacity is reached, is open to audiences of all ages, and aims to promote interest in the visual arts. It is also part of the program of events on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Rocio Garin. Since she was very young, the Esteponera artist Rocío Garín (1977) has enjoyed “drawing and painting”, an interest that led her to study at the School of Arts and Crafts in Algeciras and, later, at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, where she graduated in 2001. She quickly began working as a restorer of some of the most significant monuments in Seville, as well as church façades in the capital of Seville.

Since her return to Estepona in 2002, she has been teaching drawing and painting, an activity that she combines with three aspects of her artistic facet: as a researcher, as an artist and as a teacher. She has developed different teaching methods.

In 2013 she published a “Manual of Drawing and Painting” in which she collects the main techniques and tools to take into account in the first year of training of students.