5301 South Dixie Highway  West Palm Beach , Fl 33405  
561 588 1965   561 588 1942  Fax  561 383 2985
                                                             Artistic Statement

     Jorge Luis Sicre has had an illustrious career as a Neo-Symbolist artist, exhibiting his
paintings all over the world. Sicre has developed his unique and bold art style working in
oil, watercolor, and collage. His devotion to humanity and art is best expressed in his own
words, “I believe that the function of art is to aid man’s understanding of himself, the
universe, and his place in it. To do this, we can reproduce surface reality, or we can try to
understand underlying forces through works of imagination”. After a desperate search for
something “new” to follow the quantum leaps of discovery which gave birth to modern
art, priority is once again invested in art as a sublime vehicle to understanding Gaugin’s
question, “What are we, where do we come from, and whither are we going?” (Gaugin
was a symbolist artist in the later part of the 19th century).
     Born in Havana, Cuba into a family of artists and musicians; Sicre moved with his
mother and father to Cleveland, Ohio in 1960. His father, Jorge Juan Sicre, became a
cellist with the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra. Sicre’s grandfather, Juan Jose Sicre,
sculpted the monument in the Plaza de la Revolution in honor of Jose Marti; poet, critic,
and man of letters at the turn of the 20th century in Cuba. It is said, in fact that through his
various associations and efforts, his Grandfather introduced modernism to Cuba. Also, his
Mother’s cousin, Antonio Gattorno, was a leader of the Havana avant-garde and was a
part of the “Los Once Group” in the 1930’s
     Currently, Sicre resides in Southern California. He is a prolific artist devoted to the
tradition of easel painting, to quote Sicre, “Formally and poetically, there is still much to
explore in the application of oil on canvas. Since modernism initially evolved from
symbolism, I feel I am continuing to explore fertile ground.”
Contemporary