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Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, is the oldest and most prestigious fine arts school in Cuba. It is also known as Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", Academia San Alejandro, or San Alejandro Academy. The school is located in Marianao, a suburb of Havana, and was founded in 1818 at the Convent of San Alejandro.
The design of the National Art Schools, created by Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, and Vittorio Garatti, ran counter to the dominant International Style of the time. The three architects saw the International Style as the architecture of capitalism and sought to recreate a new architecture in the image of the Cuban Revolution.
Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes may refer to: Academy of San Carlos, formerly known as the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (Honduras), in Comayagüela; Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (Nicaragua) in Managua; Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Marianao, Havana
At age 12 he enrolled in the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", the most prominent art school in Cuba, where he studied under the famous painter Leopoldo Romañach. By his mid-teens he was acting as an unofficial professor of elementary drawing. [3] By age 19 Manuel's talent started becoming evident.
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Escuela de Bellas Artes may refer to: Escuela de Bellas Artes de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico; Escuela de Bellas Artes, La Paz, Bolivia; Escuela de Bellas Artes de Quito, in Quito, Ecuador; Escuela de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, in Marianao, Havana; Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid
Morales was born on May 24, 1913 in Havana, Cuba.He studied painting at the Academia de San Alejandro, Havana from 1925 until 1926.In 1934, he studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain.