Cuban-style art is a distinct ethnic blending of American, African and European aesthetic design telegraphing the multiethnic population make-up of the island. Creatives from Cuba adopted the European modernist movement and the early part of the 20th century saw an increase in Cuban vanguardism trends; these movements were characterized by a mixing of modern esthetic genres. Illustrious Cuban artists tended to hail from the earlier 1900s (for instance Amelia Pelez).
Arguably the most noted artwork (of sorts) to come out of the island of Cuba was THAT picture of a certain Che Guevara (shot by Alberto Korda) which ended up being one of the most noted photographs of the previous century.
The native Cuban artist movement gathered momentum after the opening of the San Alejandro academy in 1818, which was designed to gratify the European appreciation of the Cuban bourgeoisie. Towards the end of the 19th century, landscape paintings dominated the art movement of Cuba and classicalism dominated as the main art genre.
Nevertheless, the pioneering Cuban modern artist of the late 1920s had spurned the theoretical formulas of Cuba’s national art academy. During their genesis, many artists had lived in Paris, where they learned and absorbed the fundamentals of surrealism, cubism, and modernist primitivism. They returned to Cuba dedicated to innovative artistic styles and were eager to integrate this new aesthetic leaning with a Cuban twist. The vanguardia artists accomplished global recognition in 2003 with the Modern Cuban Painting show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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