Cuban Painting (XX century, the first half)

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The first quarter of the twentieth century did not bring any essential changes in painting. On May 20, 1902 the republic was born. A single important figure, that of the satirical artist Rafael Blanco, appeared on the stagnant art scene of the first decades of the republic. A trip to Europe in 1925 by Victor Manuel Garcia ought to have resulted in a final rupture with Academy, but that happened only two years later, in 1927, when the First Exhibition of New Art was held by the Association of Artists and Sculptors from May 7 to 31, 1927. The various European art trends of the early twentieth century that emerged out of the struggle with traditional art (whose mainstay in Cuba was the Academy) had finally reached our shores. The list of artists represented at the exhibition is imposing: Eduardo Abela, Rafael Blanco, Maria Capdevila, Gabriel Castaňo, Carlos Enriquez, Victor Manuel Garcia, Antonio Gattorno, Maria Josefa Lamarque, José Hurtado de Mendoza, Luis López Méndez, Ramón Loy, Alice Neel, Amelia Peláez, Rebeca Pink de Rosado Avila, Marcello Pogolotti,, Domingo Ravenet, Lorenzo Romero Arciaga, Alberto Sigura and Adia M. Yunkers. This is a rather varied array – some are significant artists, some insignificant, several periodically returned to the traditions of academic painting, several are foreigners whose creative outlooks were akin to those of their Cuban colleagues.

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Cuban Painting (XVIII – XIX centuries)

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The history of Cuba prior to the victory of the Revolution was determined in large measure by several centuries of Spanish colonial rule and several decades of North-American neo-colonial exploitation, something that cannot possibly be ignored in any analysis of this or that aspect of Cuba’s historical development.

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ИСКУССТВО - ЖИВОПИСЬ – ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНОЕ

The National Museum Of Cuba : The Fayum Portrait Western European Painting. Cuban Painting. - London : Aurora Art Publishers, 1978. - 123 p. - 11-10.
ИНО 20174F

The National Museum of Cuba: painting offers to the reader a selection of the most outstanding works of art from the Museum’s collections. The two sections of the album, of which one is devoted to foreign painting and the other to Cuban art, will acquaint the reader with the pictures on display in the National Museum’s rooms and outline the historical background in which the country’s art developed and acquired its distinctive national features. The Cuban part of the collections is given in historically balanced and chronologically precise analysis in an article written by Jorge Rigol.

Another article, by Miguel L. Nuňez, discusses the Museum’s foreign paintings, some of them by world masters, from the point of view of their artistic merit and, moreover, provides a comprehensive picture of the evolution of art in various countries.

 

 

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