Rosa Mena Valenzuela’s (b. 1913 in San Salvador; d. 2004 in San Salvador) paintings La Cuna and La Guerra es un Fuego Oscuro (both 1984) were both made during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979–92). In the early 1960s, the artist incorporated scraps of fabric with threads, a signature material that she frequently combined with cut paper and forceful lines to create a layered and complex language of abstraction.
