Cuba is full of art. Street art, gallery art, acrylic, oil, pencil, watercolour, recycled material… Anything and everything is used, and the art you see is simply spectacular. The abundant art schools, present apparently in every big town, seem to teach well and what is on show doesn’t disappoint the viewers.
The gallery and workshops are usually manned by employees that are friendly and welcoming, and most art pieces can be dismantled from their wooden structure and rolled up for a safe and easy journey home. Too pricey for our budget trip, we unfortunately didn’t buy anything ourselves….but that didn’t stop us for gorging visually.
Street art in HabanaA Fiat!Art in a gallery in TrinidadAn artist I particularly liked in TrinidadSo colourful and original.The same artist, exploring with nature.We unfortunately didn’t see any frogs while we were there. Except this one, of course!A resting geckoSculptures in TrinidadThe devilFaces in Yami Martinez’s workshop in TrinidadYami Martinez, an artist in Trinidad that portrayed women as coffee machines. We loved him and bought a little papier-mache statueOne of these ^_*Street art painted on tiles in a garden in HabanaOne of my favourite, in ViñalesArt, out to dry. Trinidad.Cars……cars….…and more cars!The “Prehistoric Mural” in Viñales. Not prehistoric, obviously, and not fantastic. About 30mins were wasted to see this, but hey, it’s still art isn’t it? 😉A galleryBeautifulA sculpture to symbolise that cooperation and working together significantly increases human strength when confronted with natural forces such as hurricanes and giant waves.A very colourful gallery in TrinidadA close-up of one of the paintingsThe Che, a popular subjectCheap, dismantle-able and cute, these hanging birds made for excellent and original souvenirs.I saw this and thought of an otter. Boyfriend and, sadly, the gallery owner say it’s a fish. What do you see?!A lovely tile composition in Soroa, at the “Castle in the Clouds” (which was uninteresting in everything else)Viva!Quite realistic!Many different techniques were being usedThis is the same author as aboveShop artA renaissance-style statue in Plaza San Francisco, HabanaPropaganda and art all in oneAn artists paletteOne of the last galleries we visited in HabanaWall art. Incredible.And of course……….
Together with Nicole Duplaix, Chair of the IUCN-SSC Otter Specialist Group , I wrote a book all about otters and how wonderful they are. Check it out We Love Otters
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