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A San Alejandro graduate highly skilled in drawing and composition, Manuel chose to apply primitivist simplicity to his Cuban subjects - a favorite being the female face - and brought out qualities of melancholy and strength, as captured in La Gitana Tropical (The Tropical Gipsy, 1929), which is considered by critics to be one of the defining ...
This is a list of women artists who were born in Cuba or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Gerardo Mosquera meditatively remarks on Mendive's art, "the black person tends to be integrated with few contradictions into a new entity: the Cuban nation." [9] Mendive is successful at producing art that combines Afro-Cuban culture with international themes to make an ideological statement about social issues in Cuba. In addition, his art ...
Renaissance art largely excluded Black people, even as it emerged during the early phases of the transatlantic slave trade which ultimately brought 10.7 million African men, women and children to ...
One version of the proportions used in modern figure drawing is: [4] An average person is generally 7-and-a-half heads tall (including the head). An ideal figure, used when aiming for an impression of nobility or grace, is drawn at 8 heads tall. A heroic figure, used in the depiction of gods and superheroes, is eight-and-a-half heads tall. Most ...
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José Bernal (1925–2010), Cuban-born American painter and sculptor; Joaquín Blez Marcé (1886–1974), photographer; Carlos Alberto Cruz Boix (born 1949), painter and sculptor; Saidel Brito Lorenzo (born 1973), drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, born in Matanzas; Adriano Buergo (born 1964), painting, drawing, installations
As 2024 dawns, we mark an anniversary that is especially difficult to stomach for many in Miami’s historic Cuban-exile community: The 65th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.