Plastic classic artists from Cuba
Amelia Peláez: (Yaguajay, 1896-La Havana, 1968). Their work is expression of the Cuban vitral, the grills, the columns, the color, the light and the present Baroque in the Cuban architecture. One of the most important ceramists in Cuba is considered.
Carlos Enríquez: (Las Villas, 1900-La Havana, 1957). We can areciar throughout all their work the transparency, the appeased treatment of the feminine nudes, the reason and the colors of the Cuban field. It also intruded in the literature. Opposed to the aesthetic conventions. Among their more famous works we can find The kidnapping of the mulattresses.
Fidelio Ponce: (Camaguey, 1895-La Havana, 1949). Bohemian, independent, rebellious. San Alejandro abandons before graduating to travel the island of Cuba, to teach to humble children and to see the reality of the country closely. When returning later years to the capital it is alcoholic and sick of tuberculosis. The main note of its work is the sadness, an impacting dramatismo.
Flora Fong: (Camaguey, 1949). We can appreciate in their trajectory a contínuo change. Long and thick brushstrokes, color desinhibidos or shy, abstract sketches of trees, small orchards, cabins, intense scenes or you calm and balanced.
Marcelo Pogolotti: (La Havana, 1902-1988). He hardly dedicated ten years from their life to the painting. They appear in their labor work, cane cutters, military and bourgeois. When losing the view, he/she is devoted to the literature and the art critic. Cuban Landscape is among their main works.
Roberto Fabelo (Guáimaro, 1951). The atmosphere onírico prevails in its work, magic. One of the most significant series for the plastic one national it is their Small Theater. It has illustrated the Colombian writer's several works Gabriel García Márquez.
René Portocarrero: (La Havana, 1912-1985). Very inspired in the reasons of their city. They are famous their images inspired by the Cuban santería.
Servando Cabrera Moreno: (La Havana, 1923-1981). After a long and rich to go on pilgrimage for the forms, it finishes in the neoexpresionismo to reflect the social epic poem of the Revolution.
Wifredo Lam: (Sagua La Grande, 1902-París, 1982). It mixes of black and Chinese, for many the biggest in the Cuban painters. Their two main works were carried out in Havana in the decade of the 40: Jungla (Museum of Modern Art of New York) and the Seat (Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba). It frequented Picasso, Breton and Levi-strauss, among other.
