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TitleTropical Gypsy

Creator nameVíctor Manuel

Creator nationality/cultureCuban

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1929

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on wood

Dimensions18 1/3 × 15 in. (46.5 × 38 m)

LocationMuseo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana

http://www.bellasartes.co.cu/obra/victor-manuel-garcia-gitana-tropical-1929

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPainting, CubanNational characteristics, Latin American, in artWomen in art

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Michele Greet

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.237-257

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00171.013

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19151&redirecttoanchor=42339

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Abigail McEwen

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.35-65

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00104.005

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2. The Cuban Revolution (1959–1989)

David Craven

Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910–1990

In the early 1960s, a delegation of high-ranking officials from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe visited Cuba. While touring the Presidential Palace with revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, this group encountered a semiabstract mural by René Portocarrero, who was one of Cuba’s leading artists until his death in 1985...

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David Craven

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.75-116

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00020.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15777&redirecttoanchor=42339

Chapter subject tags:Art, Cuban--20th centuryCuba--History--Revolution, 1959Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016Guevara, Che, 1928-1967Art, Latin American--20th centuryPolitical art--Caribbean Area--20th centuryLam, WifredoSurrealism--Latin AmericaMagic realism (Art)Mendive, Manuel, 1944-Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena, 1959-

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