Cuban visual artist Manuel Vidal would have celebrated his 95th birthday on June 24th. Born in Havana, the painter, draftsman, engraver, and designer began to gain recognition on the national art scene in the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the words of curator Roberto Cobas Amate, who describes him as a \u00absolitary personality of undeniable magnetism,\u00bb Vidal displayed \u00aba figuration of vigorous and agile strokes, of obvious expressionist affiliation, which anticipates the arrival of the expressive-grotesque current in the Cuban context.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cobas Amate recalls that Manuel Vidal shared aesthetic affinities and concerns with another isolated figure: Ra\u00fal Mili\u00e1n. Both were \u00abilluminators\u00bb in the artistic environment of the time, in which abstraction in all its varieties dominated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the work En Pareja bes\u00e1ndose<\/strong>, which the museum holds, Cobas Amate explains that \u00abthere is an angular, hard, corrosive drawing in the treatment of the theme of love. There is a libidinous ferocity in the kiss of this pair of lovers that marginalizes any idealization of sincere tenderness.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Monthly Bulletin No. 5 \/ The Open Window of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cuban visual artist Manuel Vidal would have celebrated his 95th birthday on June 24th. Born in Havana, the painter, draftsman, engraver, and designer began to gain recognition on the national art scene in the 1950s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[697,150],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-cuban-visual-artist-manuel-vidal","tag-national-museum-of-fine-arts"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cmbq-radio-enciclopedia","display_name":"CMBQ Radio Enciclopedia","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}