Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 42 | 111 | 2019
Research Article | Negrista Influences in the Cuban Drawings of Galician Castelao and Manchego García Maroto

Negrista Influences in the Cuban Drawings of Galician Castelao and Manchego García Maroto

Abstract

In this article we compare the graphic representations of two Spanish artists both committed to representing Cuban transculturation in the era of the avant-gardes of the 20th century. In a climate of negrista cultural effervescence and optimism for the accomplishment of the republican project, the trip and the happy stay in Cuba of Federico García Lorca were developed together with the musicologist Adolfo Salazar and the painter, writer and engraver Gabriel García Maroto. Eight years later, also a Galician from humid and cold lands like Alfonso Castelao would undertake the same American journey and, in spite of his political worries and his personal anguish for the future of Spain, he would find in Cuba a haven of peace from where he swelled his artistic creativity. There is no doubt that Castelao's negrism, being naturally refractory to the seduction of exoticism and folklore, appears more austere than the representations of other Spanish artists, who are, like García Maroto, more fascinated and influenced by Cuban vitalism.


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Submitted: April 5, 2018 | Accepted: Feb. 11, 2019 | Published June 21, 2019 | Language: es

Keywords Cuba vanguardias • Negritud • | Castelao • García Maroto • Negros • Castelao • Cuban avant-garde • Dibuxos grabados • Spanish Republic • Negrismo

Copyright © 2019 Irina Bajini. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2019/111/003


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