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Art also worked as space where Cubans debated some of the social problems magnified by the "Special Period", as illustrated by the Queloides art project, which deals with issues of race and discrimination. [44] "Every Cuban is an artist and every home is an art gallery," wrote Rachel Weiss in To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art. [41]
Eduardo Muñoz Bachs (1937–2001) was a Cuban poster artist and comics artist.He was born on April 12, 1937, in Valencia, Spain, but moved to Cuba with his parents in 1941.
Juan T. Vázquez Martín (1941–2017), Cuban-born American painter, among the masters of abstract paintings in Cuba; Raul Martinez (1927–1995) painter, designer, photographer, muralist, and graphic artist; María Martínez-Cañas (born 1960), photographer; Rene Mederos (1933–1996), poster artist and graphic designer
Luis Vega De Castro (born October 4, 1944 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist.Since 1980 he has lived in Miami, Florida, United States.He works in graphic design, painting, drawing and illustration, and has been noted for his work in film posters.
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in Havana, Cuba is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations.
Raúl Martínez was a well-rounded designer, as he was successful in just about every art form he pursued: from the early abstract paintings to the later representative ones; from photography to college; from screen printing movie posters to freelance graphic design for government institutions such as the ICAIC.
José Gómez Fresquet, renowned Cuban poster maker and graphic artist, recalls how on hearing the news of Guevara's death, he immediately worked all night producing the poster to be used at the rally honoring him the next day. Korda had given Fresquet a copy of the portrait as a basis for the poster, which he created on red paper.
The design of the National Art Schools, created by Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, and Vittorio Garatti, ran counter to the dominant International Style of the time. The three architects saw the International Style as the architecture of capitalism and sought to recreate a new architecture in the image of the Cuban Revolution.