Biography of artist dionisio humberton

Cuban painting has achieved its maturity through the efforts of the artists of the generation of the 1920s and 1930s, such figures as Victor Manuel Garcia, Carlos Enriquez, Eduardo Abela, and Amelia Peláez.

They and the succeeding generation (i.e.

Biography of artist dionisio humberton

René Portocarrero, Cundo Bermúdez, Mario Carreño, and Wifredo Lam), following in the footsteps of the Mexican muralists, combined European modernism with a national identity. Cuban folklore, the Cuban "scene" arrived in the island's painting long before 1959.

This art was associated with nationalism and, in most cases, with a liberal and even radical consciousness on the part of the artists. Again, there are striking parallels here with Mexico and, for that matter, the U.S. of the W.P.A.

years. Thus, the post-revolutionary period had but to put the aspects of its heritage it deemed useful in the Marxist-Leninist context of government control and propaganda in the form of updated socialist realism and dramatic "agitprop" image and slogans.