Ángel Acosta León was a Cuba

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n painter. His style owes much to surrealism

Surrealism

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, and expresses the pain he felt through much of his life. Animal, human and mechanical forms abound in his paintings, along with wheels, a reference to his lifelong fantasy of being a bus driver. His work has been compared to that of Wols

Wols

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León committed suicide at the age of thirty-four.

Reference

• Veerle Poupeye. Caribbean Art. London; Thames and Hudson; 1998.