Information about Cuba Fine Arts While in the nineteenth century Spanish, French or Italian masters dominated the local panorama, in the turn of the nineteenth century and early twentieth, artists like Leopoldo Romañach and Armando Menocal would be among the most prolific. See details ..

The public, astonished by the great creativity of today´s Cuban Fine Arts, follows each step of teh renovated creations of the consegrated artists of the moment and the constant arousal of new talents. The art critics also maintain freshness. They are able to reach conclusions without having on their side the myth of the decantation of the artistic word in time.

Of course, they will always have to go back to the beginnings of this boom, when, in the second decade of the twentieth century, Victor Manuel paints his Gitana Tropical ( Tropical Gypsy). With this work, this wild young painter leads the group of plastic artists that rebel against the most rigid and academic tradition and give birth to modern painting in Cuba.

The dicovered the true face and the colorful soul of the island, pointed out the notorious expert Juan Sanchéz, about the most outstanding painters of this first avan-garde generation. The most important: Crlos Enríque, Amelia Peláez, Fidelio Ponce, Marcdelo Pogolotti, Abela and Rabanet. From that point on, and together with the most genuine of the Cuban essences, they will follow the new techiniques and the cosmopolitan contributions as it corresponds to an Island enriched by mixture of the mos diversr cultures.

It is vital, during the forties, to highlight the legacy of important painters such as Mariano Rodriguez, René Portocarrero, Cundo Bermúdez, and the new generation, Carmelo González and Roberto Diago; and in fifties, José Bemúdez, Fayad Jamis and Antonio Vidal.

The creation of the National School of Art, in 1962, the Superior Insititute of Art in 1978, plus the constant prsernce of San Alejandro´s Academy, an almost bicentennial school, contribute to loosen and consolidate this uncontrllable explosion of the new generations of artists. Its children are painters that stay in the summit of Fine Arts of Cuba: Flavio Garciandía, César Leal, Manuel Mendive, Roberto Fabelo, Zaida del Río, Aldo Soler, Nelson Domínguez, Flora Fong, Ever Fonseca, Juan Moreira, Alberto Lescay and Manuel López Oliva, in an endless list that involves a great number of young painter.

Under the difficutl economic conditions in Cuba in the last decade of XX century, a growing internation market arises for those works that rebounded in the peak of the easel painting and the domain of the techniques linked to the new technologies. But after expressing concepts related to the human being, neither the most exquisite painters give up the genders of difficult marketing such as the installations.