Original frame by the famous Cuban Artist
Adigio Benitez Gimeno
Title: La fuente de los tulipanes.
Size: 130 cm x 100 cm
Oil on canvas
He graduated from the San Alejandro National School of Fine Arts in 1949.
He began his artistic career as a political cartoonist in the publications Voz del Pueblo, Magazine Mella and Noticias de Hoy. Later he illustrated the newspapers Granma and El Habanero.
During the 1950s, he made his first paintings, in which he tackled social problems and, starting with the triumph of the Revolution, made series of militiamen, welders, and women working in factories. At the end of the 60s he began to conceive drawings and paintings as if the characters were folded paper, a kind of origami, later contrasting it with appropriations of figures from universal art.
He has made more than 30 personal exhibitions and participated in more than 150 collective exhibitions in Cuba, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Italy, Mexico, the United States, Russia, the Dominican Republic, Spain, among others.
He is Professor of Merit at the Superior Institute of Art, Member of the National Council of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and Honorary President of the International Association of Plastic Arts (AIAP).
Awards and Scholarships
He has received the René Portacarrero Painting Prize and the UNEAC Salon, Cuba; Mention II Biennial of Committed Realism Sofia, Bulgaria; National Prize for Artistic Teaching, National Prize for Plastic Arts 2002. Acquisition Prize. National Drawing Salon, 1959, 1961- 1963.
Collections
His works are exhibited in: National Museum of Fine Arts. Cuba. Bacardi Museum. Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Ignacio Agramante Museum. Camagüey, Cuba and in private collections in: Mexico, United States, Puerto Rico, England, Germany, Russia, among others.
