Cuban-style art is a diverse cultural merging of American, African and European visual design reflecting the multiethnic population make-up of Cuba. Cuban artists espoused European modernism and the 1920-1940 era saw a growth in Cuban vanguardism trends; these trends were marked by a diversity of modern aesthetic styles. Illustrious Cuban creatives tended to hail from the earlier 20th century (for example Amelia Pelez).
Possibly the most noted artwork to come out of the island of Cuba was THAT picture of a certain Che Guevara (by Alberto Korda) which was to become maybe one of the most recognizable photographs of the previous century. Nowadays Cuban artwork is adorned on numerous canvas art prints.
The local Cuban art movement gathered some pace after the opening of the art academy (San Alejandro) back in 1818, which was constructed to meet the European predilection of the bourgeoisie population of Cuba. Towards the end of the 1800s, landscape paintings dominated the art movement of Cuba and classicism dominated as the main art genre.
However, the pioneering Cuban modern artist of the late 1920s had disapproved the theoretical orthodoxies of Cuba’s national art academy. In their genesis, numerous artists had resided in Paris, where they learned and ingested the tenets of modernist primitivism, surrealism, and cubism. Once back in Cuba, they became committed to new aesthetic styles and were keen to merge this new aesthetic persuasion with a Cuban twist. The vanguardia Cuban artists attained international recognition only as recently as 2003 when the MOMA presented the the Modern Cuban Painting show.
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