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Roberto Juan Diago Querol
Roberto Juan Diago y Querol (1920 in Havana, Cuba – February 20, 1955 in Madrid, Spain) was a Cuban artist specializing in photography, engraving, painting and drawing. He studied in the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", Havana, Cuba and founded together with Rafael Soriano (painter), Rafael Soriano, Manuel Rodulfo Tardo, José Felipe Nuñez and Juan Esnard Heydrich the Provincial School of Fine Arts in Matanzas. His grandson, Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy (born 1971) is also a Cuban painter. Individual exhibitions He exhibited his works ''"Expone Diago: Dibujos y gouaches en el Lyceum"''. Lyceum, Havana, 1944. In 1953 he presented ''"Roberto Diago"''. Panamerican Union, Washington, D.C., US. In 1956 ''"Cuarenta Dibujos de Diago"''. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. Cuba. In 1986 he presented also ''"Roberto Diago"''. Third Havana Biennial, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Havana. Cuba. And in 2001 exhibited his works in ''"El negro y el puro"''. Espacio Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''''. . The city has a population of 2.3million inhabitants, and it spans a total of – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world. MoMA's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, and electronic media. The MoMA Library includes about 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, more than 1,000 periodical titles, and more than 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives hold primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art. It attracted 1,160,686 visitors in 2021, an increase of 64% from 2020. It ranked 15th on the list of most visited art museums in the world in 2021.'' The Art Newspaper'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Deaths
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Seventh Flee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 Births
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Cuban Artists
Cuban may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans Cubans ( es, Cubanos) are people born in Cuba and people with Cuban citizenship. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic, religious and national backgrounds. Racial and ethnic groups Census The population of Cuba wa ..., people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban citizen, a person who is part of the Cuban population, see Demographics of Cuba * Cuban Spanish, the dialect of Cuba * Cuban Americans, citizens of the United States who are of Cuban descent * Cuban cigar, often referred to as "Cubans" * Cuban culture * Cuban cuisine ** Cuban sandwich * Cuban-eight, a type of aerobatic maneuver People with the surname * Brian Cuban (born 1961), American lawyer and activist * Mark Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur See also * Cuban Missile Crisis * List of Cubans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kendall Art Center
The Kendall Art Center is an arts center in Kendall, Miami-Dade County, Florida in the United States. It houses the Rodriguez Collection, owned by the Cuban-born American businessman Leonardo Rodríguez and his family. History The center was opened in 2016, and has shown several personal and collective exhibitions by emerging and established artists. The Rodriguez Collection is a Cuban contemporary art collection owned by Rodriguez and his family. Rodriguez began buying and selling works of art during the late 20th century, and established his permanent collection in 1994. The collection aims to reflect significant artistic developments in contemporary Cuban art, as well as its development in the United States and abroad. Artists * Ángel Acosta * Gustavo Acosta * Carlos Alfonzo * Jairo Alfonso * Néstor Arenas * Pedro Ávila * Luis Cruz Azaceta * Henry Ballate * José Bedia * Cundo Bermúdez * Marta María Pérez Bravo * Adriano Buergo * Ariel Cabrera * Servando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Modern Art Of Latin America
Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), located in Washington, D.C., is the first art museum in the United States primarily devoted to exhibiting works of modern and contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean. The museum was formally established in 1976 by the Organization of American States (OAS) as the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America. Artists represented in the AMA's permanent collection include Carlos Cruz-Diez, Candido Portinari, Pedro Figari, Fernando de Szyszlo, Amelia Peláez, and Alejandro Obregón. The art collection of the OAS was initiated under the organization's Visual Arts Unit, beginning with the first donated artwork by the Brazilian neo-realist artist Portinari, in 1949. In the following decade the Permanent Council of the OAS determined to establish an acquisitions fund, in order to build up a permanent collection of artworks by significant contemporary artists from the member states of the OAS. A number of works were also purchased from or donated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes De La Habana
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in Havana, Cuba is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations. History It was founded on February 23, 1913, due to the efforts of its first director, Emilio Heredia, a well-known architect. After frequent moves it was finally placed on the block once occupied by the old Colon Market. In 1954, a new Palacio de Bellas Artes was opened, designed by the architect Rodriguez Pichardo. Overview There are now two buildings belonging to the museum, one dedicated to Cuban art in the ''Palacio de Bellas Artes'' and one dedicated to the universal art, in the ''Palacio del Centro Asturiano''. The ''Palacio de Bellas Artes'' (Palace of Fine Arts) is dedicated exclusively to housing Cuban art collections. Spanning the 17th and 19th centuries, it has rooms devoted to landscape, religious subjects and the ''Costumbrismo'' narrative scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes (La Plata)
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Museo de Bellas Artes (Museum of Fine Arts) may refer to: National art museums * Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Argentina * Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Brazil * Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Santiago de Chile), Chile * Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Cuba * Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas), Venezuela Municipal art museums * Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain * Fine Arts Museum of Córdoba, Spain * Museo de Bellas Artes (Málaga), Spain * Museo de Bellas Artes (Santander), Spain, opening in 1908 in Santander * Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Spain * Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain See also *Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City *Museum of Fine Arts (other) Museum of Fine Arts (French: ''Musée des Beaux-Arts''; German: ''Museum der bildenden Künste'') may refer to: Argentina * Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Buenos Aires Austria * Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Belgium * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy
Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy "Diago" (born 1971 in Havana) is a Cuban contemporary artist who graduated at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro," Havana. Grandson of artist Roberto Juan Diago Querol, his grandmother was a First Violinist in the Havana Symphony Orchestra. Born in an intellectual background, he nevertheless lived his childhood in a poor neighborhood, el barrio Pogolotti. Influenced by his own past, in his work he confronts the Cuban official racial narrative, rewriting history to include the slavery and shame the country has tried to forget, working with material like calico in reference to what slaves used to wear. [Wifredo Lam. En 1995, Nacional de Cuba Museo de Bellas Artes le otorgó la Juan Francisco Elso Premio. 'entonces' Desde, SUS Pinturas Han SIDO arrebatado Por los Coleccionistas de Todo El Mundo. ---> Exhibitions * 1997 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. * 1998 Galería La Acacia, ''Roberto Diago: Cuestiones,'' San Jose, La Habana, Cuba. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the American state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola ( Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The official area of the Republic of Cuba is (without the territorial waters) but a total of 350,730 km² (135,418 sq mi) including the exclusive economic zone. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited by the Ciboney people from the 4th millennium BC with the Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Esnard Heydrich
Juan Esnard Heydrich (Matanzas 1917 – 1998) was a Cuban sculptor. His career took off in the 1970s with the new regime of Fidel Castro, who commissioned several monuments on the revolution and personalities of Cuban history. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", 1935 – 1940, and founded with Rafael Soriano, Manuel Rodulfo Tardo, Roberto Juan Diago Querol and José Felipe Nuñez the Provincial School of Fine Arts in Matanzas. He is second cousin of Swiss-Cuban painter Garbade and grandson of Fernando Heydrich, sculptor and founder of the aqueduct of Matanzas. Works He was a successful sculptor, and his participation with the Juventudes Socialistas (Socialist Youth Organization) let him to be the commissioned the bust of Lieutenant General of the Liberation Army Antonio Maceo in the late 1950s. There were many technical problems, and Juan Esnard took advantage of his trip as a representative of Cuba in the Third World Congress of Youth and Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
