What is Wifredo Lam known for?
What is Wifredo Lam known for?
Who is he? Wifredo Lam was a Cuban-born artist, best known for his large scale paintings which reference modernist aesthetics and Afro-Cuban imagery to explore themes of social injustice, spirituality and rebirth.
What materials did Wifredo Lam use?
Working mainly in gouache, he began painting fantastical figures with fragmented, geometrical bodies and often with a combination of human and animal parts and faces resembling the African carvings that so fascinated him and his peers.
When was the jungle by Wifredo Lam made?
1943
The Jungle/Created
More than fifteen years earlier, when Wifredo Lam painted The Jungle (1943), Cuba had already spent over four decades at the mercy of United States-interests.
What type of art did Wifredo Lam do?
Surrealism
Modern art
Wifredo Lam/Periods
In Cuba Lam developed his signature style, which blended aspects of Cubism and Surrealism, African and Afro-Cuban art, and Cuba’s colours and vegetation.
Who was Wifredo Lam Where was he from?
Cuba
Wifredo Oscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla was born December 8, 1902, in Sagua la Grande, Cuba. In 1916, his family moved to Havana, where he attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes. During the early 1920s, he exhibited at the Salón de la Asociación de Pintores y Escultores in Havana.
Who did Wifredo Lam influence?
Inspired by and in contact with some of the most renowned artists of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Lam melded his influences and created a unique style, which was ultimately characterized by the prominence of hybrid figures.
Where did Wifredo Lam grow up?
Sagua La Grande
Wifredo Lam was born and raised in Sagua La Grande, a village in the sugar farming province of Villa Clara, Cuba. He was of mixed-race ancestry: his mother, the former Ana Serafina Castilla, was born to a Congolese former slave mother and a Cuban mulatto father and his father, Yam Lam, was a Chinese immigrant.
Where are Wifredo Lam paintings?
Museo de Arte ContemporáneoLima
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and RoveretoSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSan FranciscoMuseum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)Long Beach
Wifredo Lam/On view
