Cuba is known for its landscape artists of the late 19th and early 20th century, and for its Vanguardia era artists, who embraced the modern art movements of cubism, primitivism and surrealism. Cuban artists of both eras brought local scenes, people and sensibilities to life using those aesthetic techniques.

Unleashed in the late 1970s and consolidated throughout the 1980s, the movement to renew the plastic arts in Cuba became a phenomenon known as “New Cuban Art.” This “aesthetic revolution” was shown in the field of artistic creation as an enterprising cultural project of a new desire for self-awareness, whose aim was to ...

In the 16th century, painters and sculptors began arriving from Europe to decorate Cuban churches and public buildings. By the mid-1700s, native-born artists working in the European tradition were active in Cuba. Yeyo Yeyo, José Nicolás de Escalera, ca.