Cuba and the Art of “Trading with the Enemy”
2009; College Art Association; Volume: 68; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043249.2009.10791334
ISSN2325-5307
Autores Tópico(s)Cuban History and Society
ResumoIn 1967 the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, then living in Europe, invited more than one hundred friends, artists, and writers, including Karel Appel, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Asger Jorn, René Magritte, Hans Arp, Roberto Matta, Antoni Tàpies, Victor Vasarely, Pierre Soulages, and many others, to Havana to participate in an event of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. On the night of July 17, 1967, the artists created Salón de Mayo Mural, a mural rarely seen since its inception. At Lam's suggestion, canvases were attached to a wooden grid, a spiral was drawn on the surface, and the form was divided into approximately one hundred areas for painting. The center space was saved for Lam, and field 26 (in honor of July 26—a historic date for the Cuban Revolution) was saved for Fidel Castro. The participating artists, writers, and poets created symbols, images, and cartoons, wrote poems, or simply proclaimed in bold colors, “Viva La Revolución.”
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