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DiaporamaCuban Landscape
mario carreño morales (1913 – 1999)
Mario Carreño Morales (1913-1999) was a renowned Cuban painter celebrated for his vibrant Cubist & Surrealist works reflecting Cuba's cultural heritage. Explore his evolution from muralism to geometric abstraction and poetic styles. #CubanArt #Modern
An artist who traveled not only during his formative years but long thereafter, Cuban-born painter Mario Carreño, a naturalized citizen of Chile, painted numerous landscapes of his native land in a wide range of styles. Early on, as a figurative painter, he explored the monumental style characteristic of the work of Renaissance masters whose art he saw while in Europe. During his time in Mexico, he was influenced on a formal level by the work of the muralists. Like his friend David Alfaro Siqueiros, Carreño made use of unconventional materials such as pyroxylin. In the nineteen-fifties, his art veered toward abstraction; at the end of his life, all of those experiences gave shape to a personal brand of figuration. The simple and synthetic forms in
About this artwork
- Title: Cuban Landscape
- Artist: mario carreño morales
- Year: 1943
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Color intensity: Balanced
- Perceived brightness: balanced
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