Víctor Patricio de Landaluze (1828 - 8 June 1889), was a
Spanish
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-born painter active for much of his career in
Cuba
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.
Biography
Born in 1830 in Bilbao, Landaluce received a careful education, which included learning several languages. For a time he resided in Paris. His presence in Cuba was recorded around the year 1850. He is the best-known Cuban practitioner of ''
costumbrismo
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'', depicting Cuba peasants (''guajiros''), landowners, and slaves. He taught at the
Academy of Fine Arts of San Alejandro in Havana, and served as its director. He opposed Cuban independence, an attitude reflected in his work; nevertheless his paintings provide a valuable view of nineteenth-century Cuban society. His works also depict a somewhat idealized view of
plantation
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life.
His first work consisted in the illustration of the book "The Cubans painted by themselves". In 1862 he founded the satirical and cartoon newspaper ''Don Junípero'' and in 1881 he illustrated the work ''Tipos y Costumbres de la Isla de Cuba''. Several of his works, including "Three Kings Day in Havana", are in the
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
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History
It was founded ...
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[''Guía arte cubano'', Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, 2013 (reed.), p. 50]
Further reading
*
Ades, Dawn. ''Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820–1980''. Exh. cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1989.
* de Juan, Adelaida. ''Pintura cubana: Temas y variaciones''. 1980.
* Garsd, Marta. "Victor Patricio de Landaluze," in ''Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture''. Vol. 3, p. 381.
*Ramos, Evelyn Carmen. "A Painter of Cuban Life: Víctor Patricio de Landaluze and Nineteenth-Century Cuban Politics (1850–1889)." PhD dissertation–University of Chicago, 2011.
References
*Veerle Poupeye. ''Caribbean Art''. London; Thames and Hudson; 1998.
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