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06/29 1884 Dominican poet Pedro Henríquez Ureña is born

05/03 1949 Spanish paintor and designer Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo dies

09/20 1946 The first ever Cannes Film Festival starts

12/14 1727 French paintor François-Hubert Drouais is born

02/18 1564 Artist Miguel Ángel Buonarroti dies

05/30 1640 spanish paintor Pedro Pablo Rubens is born

08/06 1928 American pop artist Andy Warhol is born

12/28 1656 Laurent de La Hyre dies, eh was an important Barroc French paintor

04/06 1528 German paintor Alberto Durero dies

08/11 1793 The Louvre museum in Paris is open to the public

11/01 1512 The Sixtine Chappel is open to the public for the first time

06/08 1873 Spanish novelist José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín) is born

10/31 1517 Italian paintor Fray Bartolomeo dies

10/09 1911 American artist Joe Rosenthal is born

04/17 1710 Thr british government stablishes the first copyright laws called Ana's Estatute

VANGUARDIA :

Movement of Cuban art that from 1926 to 1949 influenced every aspect of the Cuban scene.

The vanguardist reaction of the 20's, started a new movement for cuban painting. This modern movement had it's first and most important exhibit in 1927, sponsored by 'Avance' magazine. The starters of the Cuban vanguardia were Eduardo Abela, Victor Manuel, Antonio Gattorno and Carlos Enriquez, among others.

The years that followed saw the consolidat...

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM : The Consciously American Style of art which emerged in New York during the 1940s and remained dominant until the late 1950s. It was essentially an amalgam of ideas borrowed from Surrealism (most of whose leaders lived in exile in the US during WWII) and more strictly American concepts about the importance of the pioneering individual, particularly in the liberation of art from tradition. Abstract Expressionism was neither fully Abstract nor wholly Expressionist. It ...