Visual Arts

Visual Arts

Sculpture of Paul McCartney attracts visitors in Santiago de Cuba

By Martha Cabrales Arias

Scores of visitors to the restaurant next to the San Pedro de la Roca del Morro Castle succumb in to temptation of taken a photo close together the ex-Beatle Paul McCartney who visited this place 18 years ago.

Santiago de Cuba continues covering in murals regarding XIII InterUs

By Martha Cabrales Arias

Artists from Cuba and the other six countries meet in this city during the XIII Mural Painting International Meeting, InterUs, that will be carry out up to January 27.

Eduardo Roca, Choco received Prize of Plastic Arts Cuba 2017

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The Cuban painter and engraver Eduardo Roca, alias Choco, received the National Prize of Plastic Arts 2017 for his valuable contribution to the development of the visual arts in this Caribbean country.

Prize giving ceremony celebrated in the International Craft Fair 2017

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The prize giving ceremony to the best products, furniture, stand and design tinged the penultimate day of the XXI International Craft Fair FIART 2017, a meeting that will run until on Sunday in Havana.

Inaugurated in Cuba XXI International Fair of Handicrafts FIART 2017

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With a posthumous tribute to the renowned Cuban stained glass artist Rosa María de la Terga, the opening day of the 21st FIART 2017 International Handicraft Fair was held at the Pabexpo site in Havana, which will run until December 17.

Tribute to Wifredo Lam on the 115th anniversary of his birth

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The exhibition Wifredo Lam illuminated inside is open to the public at the Center for Contemporary Art that bears the name of the emblematic painter, the organizers confirmed.

Exhibitors from 17 countries at the International Handicraft Fair of Cuba

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Exhibitors from 17 countries will meet in Havana from December 5 to 17, at the 21st International Fair of Crafts FIART 2017, dedicated to glass creations as a manifestation, announced the organizers.

Cuban artists of plastic expose in honor to Mozart

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Relevant figures of the plastic arts of Cuba expose in La Havana works created in tribute to the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Ernesto Milanés: Tireless Toiler

By Mercy Ramos, Photos: José Meriño

The day’s twenty four hours are not sufficient for renowned Cuban artist Ernesto Milanés Ruiz who asserts that he works twenty five. For this untiring sculptor, “work achieves everything.” In an exclusive interview with Cubaplus, Milanés talked extensively about his work as a sculptor and explained that his work in general is dedicated to the cigar because in his own words he’s “a hardened smoker.”

Niels Reyes, Captivated by Painting

By Mercy Ramos

Painting is young Cuban artist Niels Reyes’ preferred form of expression because from the moment he started his studies at Cuba’s Instituto Superior de Arte—the country’s top higher education arts institute—painting captivated him.

Carlos Torres and the Art of Drawing with a Camera Lens

By Viviana Díaz Frías

Despite the controversy around photography’s inclusion within the world of fine art, there are exponents of this art form who show both through their work and their words that theirs is an artistic expression of reality through the lens of a camera.

An Artist’s Transparent Secret

By Roberto F. Campos, Photos: Publicitur (Norlys)

Buildings are are often compact structures behind which lie pieces of reality and scattered ideas. But despite their apparent solidity, façades can become so translucent that their most intimate secrets are exposed.

Antonio Hernández: Art Saved Me

By Glenda Arcia

What happens behind the scenes moments before going onto the runway, introspection before facing the public, fears, personal conflicts. All these are captured by Antonio Hernández’s lens in dressing rooms, an exposure that puts aside superficial beauty and aims to uncover individual mysteries.

Isabel Santos: Wax made Poetic

By Glenda Arcia Photos: Emilio Herrera

Young girls with fluttering wings, boys on horseback, aflight, dancers as well as little devils - all emerge from the hands of Isabel Santos once she starts working with wax. The material becomes poetry, and each of the figures expresses Santos’ feelings and experiences, as a sculptor, as a mother, as a woman.