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Cuban-style art is an assorted multiethnic fusion of European, North American and African visual design showing the multiethnic population make-up of the island. Artisans from Cuba developed European modernism and the 1920-1950 era witnessed an expansion in Cuban modernist trends; these trends were known by a diversity of contemporary aesthetic styles. Renowned Cuban creatives tended to hail from the earlier 20th century.

Arguably the most noted artwork to hail from the island of Cuba was THAT picture of Che Guevara (by Alberto Korda) which was to become maybe one of the most recognizable photographs of the 20th century.

The native Cuban artist movement amassed some pace after the opening of the the art academy (San Alejandro) back in 1818, which was built to fulfil the European appreciation of the Cuban middle class. Towards the end of the 1800s, landscapes dominated the Cuban art movement and classicism was still the genre of choice.

Nonetheless, the pioneering Cuban contemporary artist of the 1920s had despised the academic orthodoxies of Cuba’s national art academy. During their genesis, many artists had lived in France, where they studied and ingested the founding rules of modernist primitivism, surrealism, and cubism. Once back in Cuba, they became dedicated to ground-breaking aesthetic styles and were eager to integrate this new artistic tendency with a Cuban twist. The pioneering Cuban artists achieved international acknowledgement only as recently as 2003 with the Modern Cuban Painting show at the MOMA in New York. These varieties of art styles have now been made very popular through canvas art prints mounted on walls worldwide.

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