Unit 7: Modernism + Cultural Nationalism

Wilfredo Lam

created the Jungle

The Jungle

• Abstract

• Identifiably Caribbean

  • presence of body parts: legs, feets, hands

  • Enviornment/objects: scissors, bamboo

Antonio Gattorno

created women by the River

Women by the River 

• multi raced women presented 

  • black women in the back: fully clothed, working

• Mixed raced women: foreground

  • Naked, working but seem more relaxed: exoticism

Victor Manuel Garcia

created Tropical Gypsy ‘Gitana Tropical’

Tropical Gypsy

• expressionless woman

• presence of backgrouund

• focuses on the individual

  • European, African, Indigenous descent

Marcelo Pogolotti 

created ‘Cuban Landscape’

Cuban landscape

• socio political

• presence of social classes

  • plantation workers: sugar plantation

  • politicians/businessmen

  • soldiers

  • regular people

• Industrial

  • military ships

  • high rise buildings

Amelia Pelaez 

created still life; geometric, cuban theme 

• architectural ornamentation

Ramon Frade

created ‘El pan Nuestro de cada dia’

El Pan Nuestro de cada dia

• rural landscape

• working class people

• realism, naturalism

Jaime Colson

created ‘merengue’

merengue

• celebration of mixed traditions

• merengue is a dominican styled dance

  • Europeans

  • Africans

  • Indigneous

Who wrote Black Skin, Blue EYes

Krista Thompson

Thompson discusses

Manley + Huie

Thompson’s core arguement

believed that false images of Black Jamacians fueled the idea that:

• they believed they weren’t fit to model

• not fitting into lighter representations/ white standards

Edna Manley

• Born in England

  • British Jamacian

• Abstract/ Arto Deco

  • ‘Beadseller’ carving

  • ‘Negro aroused’

    • made of mahogany: native to Jamacia

  • Allegory: Jamacian Workers

    • Hopeful

    • Empowering

    • uplifiting

    • determined

  • Institute of Jamacia

Albert Huie 

• Jamacian born 

  • Portrait art: of Jamacian Women