WILFREDO LAM, Cuban, 1902-1982, at MoMA.

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A young woman with warm light coffee skin tone is shown from the waist up against a softly mottled, blue-gray background. She faces forward with dark eyes slightly heavy-lidded, brows softly arched, and parted lips painted a warm red. Her hair is deep brown to black, cut to about chin length and brushed into loose waves that frame her face. A vivid crimson wrap or shawl, thickly painted and feathery at the edges, envelops her shoulders and upper arms. Both hands cross over her chest in a protective, self-embracing gesture with one forearm angled upward as the other overlaps it, fingers relaxed and spread wide. Light catches her skin on a wrist and knuckles. The brushwork is visible throughout with smooth modeling in the face and hands, but looser strokes in the garment, so she feels present while the setting dissolves into atmosphere. A narrow shadow under her chin and the gentle highlight along the bridge of her nose give the portrait sculptural depth alongside its study-like intimacy. Titled simply “Muchacha” (“Young Lady”), the work withholds a name, inviting us to read mood and gesture instead of biography. Her crossed arms can suggest modesty, warmth, or self-possession like an inward turn that contrasts with her distant-focused gaze. Leopoldo Romañach y Guillén, a leading Cuban academic painter and long-time professor of color theory at Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana, often fused European training with a local attentiveness to character. Painted around 1930, near the height of his influence as a teacher, this portrait feels like a lesson in restraint via controlled drawing in the face and hands, and expressive, modern looseness in the surrounding red cloak. Even though the woman remains unidentified in published records, her presence is memorable because the saturated red and lighter background function together almost like a halo, framing a woman who meets us as herself and on her own terms.

“Muchacha” (Young Lady) by Leopoldo Romañach y Guillén (Cuban) - Oil on canvas / c. 1930 - Coral Gables Museum (Florida) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #LeopoldoRomañach #LeopoldoRomañachyGuillén #Romañach #LeopoldoRomanach #CoralGablesMuseum #BlueskyArt #PortraitofaWoman #CubanArtist #CubanArt

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🖼️ Installation image of 'Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island.' Photography by Matthew Sherman

Happy 66th Birthday, María Magdalena Campos Pons! 🥂
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In the 1920s, Cuban artists “were searching to represent the identity, the rescue, and affirmation of national values.” This painting completed in Paris in 1929, comes from Cuban artist Víctor Manuel García Valdés' early years, when his works were shaking up the art world as a member of the "Vanguardia" movement of artists who combined European concepts of Modern art with native Primitivism to create a distinctly Cuban aesthetic. In his depiction of a peasant woman with "mestizo" features, surrounded by a rural landscape, the essential components of his artistic imagination are on display including the influences of Paul Gauguin as a starting point, a discreet Paul Cézanne-esque presence, the simplicity of Amedeo Modigliani, and the mood of Marie Laurencin ... but, with added traits of a modern Cuban woman: a mix of Spanish, African, Peruvian and Mexican. It's this definitive "Americano" character which the artist himself emphasized, "She's a mestiza, a mulatto, but I gave her the almond eyes of an Indian from Peru, from Mexico..." Such heterogeneous ingredients are recomposed from a unitary intuition that turns this work into the central symbol of Victor Manuel's oeuvre. The portrait is painted with colors and textures that emanate a rustic feeling. We don’t know who the subject is, and her expression is enigmatic. She is wearing an indigo, loose-fitting dress with long sleeves. Over this, she wears an off-white shawl that drapes casually over her shoulders and partially obscures her left arm. The background with trees, a building, and a wall are rendered with broader brushstrokes and muted and subdued blues, grays, and off-white tones to create a calm, almost somber atmosphere. "Gitana tropical" has long fascinated visitors to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Havana, Cuba. It is often declared the "Cuban Mona Lisa" (or "American Mona Lisa") and is regarded by some as the first masterpiece in Cuban history.

"Gitana tropical" by Victor Manuel García (Cuban) - Oil on wood panel / 1929 - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba (Havana) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #artwork #PortraitofaWoman #CubanArtist #VictorManuelGarcía #VictorManuel #CubanArt #Modernism #BskyArt #MuseoNacionaldeBellasArtesdeCuba #MNBA

A picture of the painting “Portrait of an Artist” by Cuban artist Marlon Portales, represented by Spinello Projects

Portrait of An Artist | By Marlon Portales, represented by Spinello Projects | Oil on canvas, 2024
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Ignacio Merida is an artist I met in La Havana, December 2001. Unprovoked, he gifted me, a Gringo, this large abstract work on stressed paper. It is his reaction to the World Trade Centers coming down on 9/11, created in Cuba within a day of the event.

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El último frasco de paciencia
Óleo sobre lienzo del cubano Adonis Muiño (1UP)

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